So often we concentrate on flowers to light up our gardens with colour, forgetting a display of mellow fruitfulness prolongs a garden’s interest and provides the bonus of essential food for birds and wildlife.

For the first time ever, RHS Chelsea Flower Show has been held in September. The colours, the sunlight, even some of the exhibitors are different. But reassuring, it’s still the Chelsea we all love, glamorous, floriferous, trend setting and fabulous.

Hurry, hurry, as some of the most fashionable tulip varieties are selling out fast. Make it your September resolution to order your tulips before the early birds catch the worms, so to speak and children return to school.