Before Christmas we were all worrying about global warming - it was so wet and warm - now there are articles predicting a new ice age after just a week of freezing temperatures - confused? You must be, but think how the plants are feeling - they don't know whether they're budding or dying.
Maggie Campbell Culver, author of The Origin of Plants always knows what will survive the winter whatever the weather - and bring a little colour to a drab time of year to boot. She talks to Corinne Julius. The Origin of Plants: The People and Plants That Have Shaped Britain's Garden History Since the Year 1000 by Maggie Campbell Culver, published by Headline; ISBN: 074727214X