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  • The English Garden

    Singing the Season

    May 18, 2022 2 minutes
    WORDS VIVIENNE HAMBLY
    PHOTOGRAPHS
    SUSSIE BELL

    Summer arrives at the kitchen garden at Thyme near Southrop, Gloucestershire, in a tumult of new growth. Sunlight slides between the trees on the lane to the kitchen garden, and wildflowers bloom in the water meadows. A cuckoo sings the season.

    In the vegetable beds, every shade of green unfurls over the early weeks of June. The first harvests of the new season come

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