The bougainvillea and palms think they are still in summer It’s been a week of contrasts. The weather can’t decide whether it should still be winter or sneaking towards an early spring. And so my garden is filled with cascading bougainvillea and colourful geraniums, against flourishing and abundant lemons, but drying and languishing dwarf butter beans and tentative broad beans and sugar snap peas. The vegetable patch looks lush…but is providing very little…style over substance at this stage, I think. Confusion all around. Lucinda's petunias are finished just as the lemons ripen And my son can’t decide if adulthood is all it is meant to be. It is such a matter of seasons, this maturity thing. For plants, it seems less complicated…unless the weather upsets the natural order of things. For people, it’s also a matter of circumstances…and timing. The geraniums and ivy don't seem to care about the season It’s tough as a parent to see one’s ch...