It's not all about flowers, leaves have beauty too

Peter Dowdall says its time to think of colourful summer foliage and time to re-invent an old annual. 

The travel brochures are out. Where will we go on holidays this year?

It’s a nice form of escapism during the gloomy weather — and even if the sunny climes of the Mediterranean, Aegean and Caribbean are not breached this year — there’s still a sense of sunshine and summer from just leafing through the pages.