Beth Tarling has hundreds of gardening books. Predominantly old with aged, browned pages that give off that evocative, musty aroma. She has all of Christopher Lloyd's books, the full series of Mr Cuthbert's Guide to Growing, and the hefty volumes of William Watson's The Gardener's Assistant, and regularly consults the ABC guides of no-dig pioneer WE Shewell-Cooper.
In her cottage garden in Gunwalloe on the Lizard Peninsula in Cornwall, the most southern tip of the UK, flowers grow all year round. Daffodils give way to
