The English Garden

Jim’s Garden Diary

n the northern hemisphere our gardens are well and truly tipped towards the life-giving sun again. Emerging from my back door on a sunny morning gives me a jolt of joy, but the flood of crisp light threatens to bleach out the abundance of new growth in the Deanery garden. My eyes take a moment to adjust, and then the saturated colours shine through: vivid ‘Jerusalem Blue’ and the acid greens of subsp. and.

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