I picked a bunch of flowers from my garden the other day: I just love the colours, so zingy and bright this time of year.

A rainbow of zing: red Crocosmia ‘Lucifer’, orange self-sown Crocosmia, yellow Inula hookeri, and purple Lythrum salicaria, our native Purple loosestrife.

And then my lovely and clever friend Sam gave me a bunch of roses for no reason other than she saw them and knows orange is my favourite colour. What a darling and aren’t they gorgeous?

Sunshine in a vase!