18 FEBRUARY 1989, page 40

Pop Music

Call her madam Marcus Berkmann I t's good to have something to review at last — judging by the record companies' release schedules, January is a purely conceptual construction,......

Gardens

The hounds of spring Ursula Buchan L ike most gardeners, I have a notor- iously unreliable memory. Why else do I insist that the wisteria took seven years to flower when my......