Tales from the Garden From January through June, Matt Collins, writer and Head Gardener at the Garden Museum is documenting the subtle and often overlooked scenes of a changing garden. From his Hampshire plot, he sees the season reaching full bloom. “Sunshine for weeks: baking days and cold nights. There are echoes of 2020’s miraculous spring in the weight and brilliance of the blossom this month: first the voluminous cherries, then the apples and pears with their single white, pink-tinged petals. There are buds all over the climbing roses now, and their moment will come next. Today I watched a bee-fly hovering steadily over the lawn, two feet up. A curious, oddly approachable creature with the eyes of a fly, the balled fluff of a bee and the long proboscis of a hummingbird hawk-moth. I got close enough to see all this while it sculled in mid-air. They favour muscari flowers apparently — a note for autumn bulb planting.” You can read Matt’s Tales From A Garden series on the #TOASTMagazine via the link in bio. Matt Collins (@museum_gardener).