It’s worth watching the Allotment Association Plant Sales because, apart from being able to buy plants and vegetables at prices you won’t find anywhere else, they give a real indication of the progress of the seasons. The produce at this one started to have a lush feel about it.
Flowers don’t tend to feature largely on allotments, but wandering around the plots, odds and ends tell us there’s always colour in the season with flowers. Although a number of the Spring flowers are well and truly over and gone already, here’s a little bit of informal seasonal colour we found scattered around.