Exam Exacerbation

Polemonium yezoense var Hidakanum 'Purple Rain'

Another day at college left us feeling emotionally drained again yesterday. We continue to plough doggedly through past papers in the hope that we might dredge up a vestige of an answer that will suit the exacting standards of the RHS. The planning and garden design paper was a real stinker, it's pretty hard to put some concepts into words and that august body has a knack of phrasing a question with such perfect ambiguity that you're left floundering about not knowing quite what they're after. Isn't there a campaign for plain English society? If so the RHS need reporting to them. Most of the class fluctuate wildly between abject despair and optimistic hope, driving just about everyone either to the Betty's cake counter or the plant sales area as a salve at lunchtime! Only five and a half weeks to go.........

"The more we study, the more we discover our ignorance" Percy Bysshe Shelley