YOUR PRUNING MONTH
People often talk about the ‘May gap’, when spring plants begin to fade and the burgeoning summer growth is yet to appear. Though if, like me, you allow a little room for some wildness, May is one of the most abundant months, with cow parsley, bluebells, hawthorn blossom, foxgloves and columbine meeting cultivated Solomon’s seal and the first hardy geraniums and delphiniums in your borders. For me, the impact of this is breathtaking: soft, green and zinging.
When the
