green-fingered

• “Corporate plants in Eland House are now in need of some green-fingered friends to ensure their survival.”

  The Guardian: Hugh Muir's diary

• “This large shop holds green-fingered titles galore, but also stocks a healthy selection of other books, along with some high-end kitchenware, jewellery, gifts, and home-grown blackcurrant jam.”

  The Guardian: Independent bookshops in south-east England

• “The Observer's green-fingered guru on all things horticultural”

  The Guardian: January: the to-do list

• “It's easy to forget that before Ilkley's favourite son was a daytime chatshow colossus and racy novelist, Alan Titchmarsh was a humble, green-fingered horticulturist.”

  The Guardian: Tonight's TV highlights: Love Your Garden | Channel 4's Comedy Gala | The Santana Story | Paul Merton's Birth Of Hollywood | Isle Of Wight Festival 2011 | In Treatment

• “For the less green-fingered, this beautiful farm is only separated from bookworm-central Hay-on-Wye by a river.”

  The Guardian: The 10 best campsites for food lovers

• “Over the past few months, green-fingered youngsters at the Skipton school have also been cultivating carrots, peas and beans in four raised beds in a corner of the school's grounds.”

  The Guardian: Outdoor learning cultivation

• “This series finds the green-fingered sometime novelist visiting inspirational British gardens of history, this time fetching up in the 17th-century elegance of Hatfield House in Hertfordshire.”

  The Guardian: Tonight's TV highlights

• “I'm very aware that to the green-fingered among you this may look like a very poor early specimen of borage and to others it may look like a weed, but let me tell you this is no ordinary borage.”

  Sylvia's borage

• “Ten-year waiting lists to rent a tiny plot in inner-city community gardens are nothing unusual, and for some Brits, gardening has become so important that they speed date with a horticultural theme -- so-called "speed gardening" during which potential dates are judged by their green-fingered talents.”

  The Wall Street Journal: The Roots of a Gardening Obsession

• “Here's what you can do to protect your garden antiques and outdoor furniture from 'green-fingered' thieves: Be aware of the limits of your home and contents policy and ensure you have adequate coverage for items which exceed that limit.”

  Archive 2008-05-01

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