The Gardeners' World Blog

When I last blogged about our coverage of Lewis Hamilton back in June, none of us probably expected that come the dark days of autumn we would be preparing for the weekend when this sensation of British sport might be crowned world champion in his rookie year, at the end of what has been called the most thrilling F1 championship of all time.

And if someone had told any of us back then that England's rugby union team, who at that time had suffered 14 defeats in their most recent 19 Tests, would on the same weekend be preparing for a World Cup final against South Africa, surely no-one would have thought it possible.

But that's the nature of sport, and that's why we find ourselves now preparing for one of the biggest sporting weekends this country has witnessed in years.