The Gardeners' World Blog

In my working life, the phrase I have heard probably more than any other in the past year is Summer of Sport.

That's the (admittedly dull) buzzword we attached many months ago to a period of three months when we knew we would have to deliver for this website Euro 2008 and the Olympics, with a Ryder Cup thrown in for good measure and those huge annual events which need to be dealt with every summer - Wimbledon, the Open, an England cricket series, the climax of the domestic football seasons in England and Scotland and the start of the new football campaigns.