Johnson and his wife bought a house in Ferny Creek, the hamlet where Hamilton-Byrne lived.

The blooms are small, single and white; the foliage is ferny; and the thorns are jagged, plentiful and glowingly blood-red.

Most of his produce, ranging from ferny fennel to gigantic red peppers, to Yukon gold potatoes and sweet corn, is grown in the great outdoors.