LATE SPRING BRINGS the easiest displays of flowers to the temperate garden as the momentum of lengthening days and the sun’s heat stimulate growth and blossom. It is this moment of the year that sells gardening: seed catalogues display colourful flower faces, close up and close together, to entice you to buy into a perpetual springtime of riotous flower. It is the equivalent of the desire for lettuce, strawberries and asparagus all year round: the manipulation of growing processes to bypass every vestige of seasonality. May and June bring effortless glory, for scent and colour bubble out of the ...
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