Chicken Boy: My Life With Hens (limited signed copies) Kitchen Ware but its upright growth means

but its upright growth means that it can be planted in a container or a smaller garden

sprawling habit that can easily be persuaded up walls or with the help of wires or a trellis

exquisitely pretty flowers

the tonics uplift spirits and encourage us to be calm

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Chicken Boy: My Life With Hens (limited signed copies) Kitchen Ware but its upright growth meansGrowing up in an ex mining town in Nottinghamshire, the other kids in the playground called Arthur Parkinson 'Chicken Boy' due to his fascination with everything fowl. But the quiet fulfilment of keeping hens became his sanctuary, a tonic for mental and physical health, and in this memoir he details his connection with hens, his family and the natural world.