Hitting a BLUE NOTE
If spring is a debutante, fresh faced and dressed in whites and pastels, summer is a dame: confident, experienced, languid even. The garden at South Shoebury Hall in Essex, is very much a summer garden, where a well-established collection of agapanthus hits its stride when the days are longest and the weather is at its most mellow.
It is the work of Michael Dedman who, with his wife Caroline, tended the garden through 38 years of their adult lives, from being newly married with children to the point of needing to downsize. The one-acre
