Old gardeners never die they just spade away, although some do throw in the trowel, horticultural wisdom has it. But the past few weeks have sorely tried the earthy fraternity to say nothing of sorority. As Stephen Fry observed: “Wet and windy. Then I looked out of the window and saw that the weather is too.”
April however is here to bring hope to a wilting gardener’s breast, even if it was but originally the second month of the Roman calendar before January and February were added by King Numa Pompilius about 700 BC. It became the fourth month about 450 BC.
