TY - JOUR T1 - A <em>Gardener’s World</em> meets general practice JF - British Journal of General Practice JO - Br J Gen Pract SP - 466 LP - 466 DO - 10.3399/bjgp21X717293 VL - 71 IS - 711 AU - Charlotte Sidebotham Y1 - 2021/10/01 UR - http://bjgp.org/content/71/711/466.abstract N2 - Do you know your marigolds from your muscari? Or your lupins from your lilies? Neither did I. But, like most of us, our unparalleled year of lockdowns nudged me into spending more time in the garden. Scratching around in the soil in a vain attempt to reinvigorate my wilting flowers, I realised quickly that I was utterly clueless. So, I got myself a book. I chanced upon Monty Don’s Down to Earth: Gardening Wisdom.1 He is as gifted a writer as he is gardener. I devoured chapter after chapter. Soaking up Monty’s pragmatic advice, I realised that a lot of his wisdom could be shared with general practice. Here is some of his sage advice.It is easy to get lost in the rules of gardening, but there are many ways of doing the same thing. No one garden is identical. If you have success with what you are doing, then keep doing it. Equally, we can become accustomed to disease-specific guidelines with … ER -