After a long and particularly wet winter we have arrived at the most exciting time of year, when the world is unfolding daily in clouds of floral glory in the season of tulips, forget-me-nots, alliums, irises and above all blossom – blossom spilling off trees, shrubs and hedges, blossom in clouds of glorious flower, blossom filling the warm spring evenings with delicious fragrance.
But I have always been obsessed by what the Japanese call . I think that the best translation (and for any