Diana Baskervyle-Glegg was born in 1931 and brought up in a middle-class Cardiff household which employed a cook and a nanny. In her memoir, Cast In the Mists of Time, she describes her work as a gardener, designer and gardening writer and the people she has met in the course of her varied life. Now 79, she lives in Charlbury, where she is known for her oil paintings. The book is available at £9.99 from Evenlode Books in Market Street, Charlbury, and Jaffe & Neale in Chipping Norton.