“The Romans brought with them spices such as ginger, pepper and cinnamo...” — Monty Don Quote

The Romans brought with them spices such as ginger, pepper and cinnamon, and herbs including borage, chervil, dill, fennel, lovage, sage and thyme, all of which have remained staples of the British kitchen.

Woods are rich with biodiversity and, above all, places of trees and light that spangles a thousand greens through the leaves.

Sweet peas should smell. Half the point of growing sweet peas is to cut them for the house; they should fill a room with an almost painful olfactory inarticulateness. But most sweet peas smell of nothing. This does not stop them being beautiful, but they are like food with no flavour.

Gardening is inevitably a process of constant, remorseless change. It is the constancy of that process that is so comforting, not any fixed moment.

Inside my heart, there's a 12-year-old girl who has always wanted to be Ginger Rogers.

I've always modeled myself after Ginger.

I grew up in Harrow, London, with two sisters. I am the middle child and a natural ginger, so fiery by nature.

I grew up a 'Ginger,' and I liked having a somewhat unique name.

I got very lucky with 'Harry Potter.' I got that role because I'm a ginger! Red hair was my only qualification!