Peter Dowdall looks at some perfect sun-loving plants

Peter Dowdall muses on the significance of midsummer to gardeners throughout the millennia.

Whatever the explanation for the origin of the universe, be it the Big Bang or God or something that we haven’t even begun to realise yet, it is a certainty that the sun is the most important element essential to life on earth.

It seems foolish to even write it as it is probably the most basic precept of all — if the sun didn’t exist, neither would we. But do we stop and think long enough to realise exactly what impact it is having?