In praise of... my overgrown fatsia

I smiled when I saw this Sunday's Gospel, in which a landowner, faced with weeds among his wheat, tells his servants Let both grow together until the harvest... (Matthew 13: 30). When I moved to my new home last September, I decided to give everything in the garden - unless it was bindweed or an obvious bramble - a year in which to show me its potential, before I made any decisions about changes,…