Mother’s Day
THIS Sunday is Mother’s Day, or Mothering Sunday if you prefer. In a normal year, the shops (and garage forecourts) would all be overflowing with gift ideas for mums everywhere, as offerings of thanks and love. But, owing to the pandemic, it’s a little muted this year. However, there is no reason why we shouldn’t celebrate the occasion on these pages. So to all you mothers, mums, moms (I can’t understand why the American’s don’t have ‘mums’ like us), mammas, grandmothers, stepmothers and mothers-in-law out there, let’s look at some of the connections between you and plants – there are more than you would imagine!
■ The date of Mothering Sunday changes every year: it falls on the Fourth Sunday in Lent (known as Laetare Sunday),
