Sweetpea

The rain is here at last and glorious as this endless summer has been, it's good to be back in corduroy and aged cashmere, contemplating a cosy autumn. Besides the meadow residents, the only flowers (or indeed anything) I have grown with any real success this summer has been the overflowing entanglement of sweetpeas in our otherwise entirely neglected veg patch. So as Summer sidles off for another year, here's a scribble of my favourite flower which has been keeping kitchen and bedside table cheerful since June, though not sadly for very much longer...