Ideal time to plan that cut flower bed

Kitty Scully on the benefits of ready to order colour from veggie patch.

Love, chocolate and flowers are in the air — but if your garden is anything like mine in February, there will not be a lot of fresh floral action — apart from some salad rocket and oriental greens run to seed.

Good things come to thosewho plan, however, and now is the perfect time to prepare a cut flower garden or a simple cut flower bed within your vegetable patch.