16 MARCH 1985, page 38

Gardens

Powerplay Ursula Buchan G ardening can be tedious. However, gardeners display a reticence about this fact that amounts almost to a conspira- cy of silence. Many wish to convince......

Opera

Birthday boy Rodney Milnes Xerxes (Coliseum) Norma (WNO, Cardiff) Ulicking through the newspaper notices of Handel's birthday week in London over coffee in Florian's and musing......