Plant this
The evergreen shrub known as Bastard senna, aka Coronilla valentina subsp glauca ‘Citrina’, has far finer credentials than its silly name suggests. It produces scented lemon yellow flowers from late summer to early spring, and its height and spread is 1m x 1m, so it suits a patio pot, or train it against a wall. Needs full sun and shelter.
Check this
If you bought spring bulbs weeks ago, but haven’t yet planted them, don’t panic. If they’re now sweating in the bag, give them a once-over and discard any going soft or mouldy. Then use crocus.co.uk’s brilliant bulb-planting auger (it fits on an electric drill) to take the strain out of planting.
Visit this
The Higgins Museum in Bedford is home to an exhibition celebrating the role of trees in British landscape painting, featuring works by John Constable, Edward Lear, Lucian Freud and others. While you’re in town, pop across the road to the Panacea Museum’s pretty gardens: members of the Panacea Society, a religious cult formed in the early 20th century, believed this was the site of the garden of Eden.
