Time to reap rewards
LAZY evenings spent dining with friends on the patio; picking sun-ripened tomatoes, homegrown beans and a bounty of fruit; the heady scents of summer’s fragrant stars.
This is the perfect time to reap the rewards of all the busy times in the gardening year.
In this issue, we celebrate this favourite time with a feature on hibiscus, the plant that best evokes dreams of perfect island holidays in balmy weather (page 20).
Marilyn Wightman comes up with recipes using fresh garden herbs perfect for casual and alfresco meals (page 19), Gillian Vine recommends amaranth as a quick leafy crop that loves the heat (page 25) and Jane Bellerby has timely tips on growing parsnips in readiness for winter (page 26).
Our DIY expert Mark Rayner presents interesting ways to recycle ‘junk’ to enhance our gardens (page 14) – timely tips if your post-Christmas budget is tight or if you can spend some of this quiet gardening time having a clean out around home.
Just don’t work too hard. Make time to enjoy relaxing in your garden.
