This week it’s:
BY December most deciduous garden plants, with their vibrant autumn leaves, have shed them. It’s reasonable to say, therefore, that between now and midspring (when camellias, tulips and azaleas are flowering) the one hot colour that will be missing from the majority of gardens is… red. You can have many other colours in the depths of winter, such as green leaves (of course), as well as blue irises, purple and yellow crocuses, white snowdrops, pink viburnums, and orange from pyracantha berries and the bark of many prunus trees. But what is there in the way of ‘red’ – the most vivid colour of them all? Is red that
