Forty years ago I sat down to discuss the vexed topics of winter-flowering irises and autumn-flowering nerines. I had never written a gardening article before and I was doing these two entirely on spec. I never imagined that I would write more than 2,000 others in a weekly sequence, all for the same newspaper, the FT.
40年前，我初涉园艺类文章，探讨的是冬季开花的鸢尾(irises)和秋季开花的尼润属植物(nerines)，当时如何种植这两种植物的话题众说纷纭。我之前从未写过园艺类文章，而且写这两种植物的文章完全是冒险做法。我压根没想过自己之后会写下2000多篇此类文章，每周一篇未曾间断过，而且所有的文章都是为《金融时报》写的专栏。
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