Following on from a conversation that began on Saturday, my friend, Jackie Russell and I have been bouncing an image back and forth via email today. The photograph is one from Clarice’s archive and we have been trying to identify the plant/s in the very foreground. We have settled on Pelargoniums, which are in flower, and Peony. The exciting thing for me is that this places the photograph during the summer months (not exactly a narrow timescale I know) and it also throws up a