Around midsummer, June 21st, I sowed a handful of annuals including cosmos, helichrysums and antirrhinums. These late sowings are flowering now and with much more gusto than those sown in early spring. I wonder if sometimes as gardeners we are too impatient to get going and neglect to plan well enough for autumn. I’m certainly discovering the joys of extending the flowering season with chrysanthemums and tougher annuals that enjoy the cool, autumn weather. Rather than looking tired and tatty like their summer cousins, these plants will be lush, vigorous and colourful until the first frosts.
