Famous Gardeners

Elizabeth at Broad Street Book Centre is quite excited - they've had an order over the internet from A Famous Gardener! He's collecting the New Naturalist series.
This led us on to discussing other famous gardeners who have been seen in Hay.
Bob Flowerdew came into that same shop some years ago, when my ex-husband was on the desk. He was looking for an obscure Victorian children's book about Norwich. As we had recently moved to Hay from Norwich, Allen knew the book, and had actually read it. He couldn't find another copy for Bob Flowerdew, but at least they had an interesting conversation.
Janice, who has worked in quite a few of the bookshops over the years, has also met Bob Flowerdew. She has a chronic dry cough, and he told her that, if she ate 100 different things over a week, the cough would clear up.
"However would you manage that?" Diana asked, starting to count things on her fingers (there was a whole group of us gossiping round the till). "Still, it would be a challenge to try."