With thoughts of fresh posies and sweet smelling summer blooms, Toby Buckland has plans for a cutting garden at Greenacre. He makes his first sowings of flowers that will bloom within 12 weeks and makes recommendations for varieties that are ideal for cut flower borders. Spring has truly arrived when one of the wilder members of the pea family, the gorse, is in flower. Carol Klein follows its trail to her own back garden and looks at one of its surprising relatives.
