The first warm, sunny days of summer bring many delights to Tresillian in Cornwall. Recently arrived, swifts and swallows are as agile as dancers as they loop and dive for insects at the beginning and end of the day, and cuckoos call from thickets trimmed with cow parsley. Around the Victorian walled garden, tall ash trees settle into deep green leaf, the ground beneath them soft with the fallen leaves of previous summers.
Although there is something to harvest from the walled garden all year round, this really is the time when weeks of patient tending come to fruition. And, as ever, there is one eye on the seasons to come, with sowings of brassicas laid down for
