Paul McDevitt
Fertile ground
NOMINATIVE determinism has been posited exhaustively on these pages, to the point that on more than one occasion we have declared the subject forbidden, off-limits, no more.
Yet Feedback is powerless to ignore the news that one in eight employees at the UK’s Royal Horticultural Society (RHS) have a name associated with green fingers.
An announcement preceding this year’s National Gardening Week, 30 April to 6 May, reveals that the organisation’s 900 staff include “four Heathers, three Berrys and another three called Moss”. Visitors to RHS gardens may be served by a Gardiner, Marsh or Shears, a Garlick, Greenfield, Moore, Shaw or Goodacre among…
