The Gardeners' World Blog

Inevitably the rugby headlines this week have been dominated by the fallout of England's seventh successive defeat.

Equally inevitably that has overshadowed the measure of Argentina's achievement in pulling off their first-ever win at Twickenham.

The current Argentina squad are fired, as their eloquent captain and scrum half, Agustin Pichot says, by a strong sense that they are the outsiders of world rugby.

The victory over England was only the latest in a string of good results against the world's top sides. They've beaten France and Wales on the last four occasions they've met and last summer only lost 25-19 to the All Blacks in Buenos Aires.