The instructions on the packets of seed for biennial flowers tend to suggest May as the month to sow them, but I find June is quite early enough. Foxgloves, wallflowers, Sweet Williams and Canterbury bells (remember them?) can all be sown now in shallow drills in an odd corner of the vegetable garden. Water the bottom of the drill, then sow the seeds individually. Cover the seeds by shuffling along the row with your boots together, then very lightly rake out your footprints. Keep a record, both on a label and in your well-thumbed notebook. Your investment will be well rewarded.
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'The view changes with the seasons, so there’s always something new to see': David Beckham on one of his favourite sights in the CotswoldsSir David Beckham discovered this Cotswolds view while looking for a house to buy.
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'A bluff, honest man in the trappings of greatness': The extraordinary story of the Foundling Hospital, and the sailor who saved the abandoned children of LondonA remarkable charitable endeavour to save abandoned children on the streets of London has a touching legacy in the form of the The Foundling Museum in the very centre of London. John Goodall tells its story; photographs by Will Pryce.
