GARDENING DAVID WHEELER
SCENTS AND SENSIBILITY
Nature allows for little or no real dormancy.
In the shivering northern hemisphere, in the midwinter, everything above ground may look asleep but – to quote wise old Rumi, that celebrated 13th-century Persian poet and mystic – ‘Don’t think the garden loses its ecstasy in winter. It’s quiet, but the roots down there are riotous.’
