Urban living can deprive us of our sense of the seasons – a garden brings the opportunity to reconnect. With the passage of the summer solstice the ripening quarter of the year is on us; natives of the northern hemisphere such as campanula, foxglove and campion have already flowered and set their seed, as have docks, nettles and buttercups. July is the moment to step back, accept all the inadequacies of my efforts in the garden and appreciate all that the summer sun affords.
I’d recommend a kind of aestivation when shade becomes a welcome asset, from which you can quietly enjoy the movement of ...
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