The Full monty

Like any gardener, I am aware of how the garden is changing and unfolding at this time of year, from day-to-day, let alone across the months. In every other year of my life, the flower show season would be rising to its Chelsea climax along with most gardening activity, driven by the huge commercial trade that underpins it.

But everything has changed. It is as though the world has been thrown up in the air and the pieces are cascading around