Peter Dowdall discusses summertime jobs in the garden

As high summer approaches, Peter Dowdall dissects the seemingly effortless look of the cottage gardens seen in the summer’s shows.

Its high summer, it’s official. Next weekend is the longest day of the year and it has that habit of creeping up unannounced.

So many jobs and so much I want to get done before we land in summertime but here we are, time once more moving like a steamtrain hurtling forwards.