With Google's keyword search certain people/topics slip into my mailbox, without effort. Today, Gertrude Jekyll, in The Telegraph, arrived with more good links you'll want to read. Save for later if you're busy, you'll like all of them. Apples, politicians, boxwood health, bulbs inside for winter.
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These aren't projects, below, they're easy, fun, pretty. Projects? Not for me.

Plant projects to see you through winter

China tureen of snowdrops — Pic, The Winter Garden by Emma Hardy,by CICO Books (£14.99). To order your copy for £12.99 plus p&p call 0844 871 1514 or visit books.telegraph.co.uk

Boxwoods are planned for the front of our ca. 1900 American farmhouse. May change those plans, and, will I draw boxwoods into client gardens? With a warning, and no guarantee, yes, will put them in client gardens. Make up your own mind, read below.

From diseases to caterpillars: is it time to give up on box?

Box hedges in the Bourton House knot garden — BOX HEDGES IN THE BOURTON HOUSE KNOT GARDEN CREDIT: ALAMY

Think gardening is not political? California jurisdictions are considering making water a commodity. What does this mean for you? Have a pond on your property, and it's a government commodity, you cannot use the water without permission. For starters. More lightheartedly, politics & gardening, below.