May
Top tips for growing flowers this month; sowing now for summer cutting, a spring review and a Chelsea Chop.
May is jammed packed with seasonal markers. Allotments are waking with Asparagus and the first new potatoes can be dug up; I adore the heavenly scented lilac overhanging fences while the frothy white cow parsley, hawthorn and elderflower hedgerows mingle with bright green nettles, tender enough to pick (with gloves!). Long bright days are almost perfect…
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