The earliest flowers, if you don’t count the hellebores. I have been seduced this year by the need for colour, for a lift, for something, anything, to remind me that there is hope.

I went to the garden centre, and I came home with some potted bulbs. The horticultural equivalent of a ready meal but needs must at this low point of February. And there are ways and means of making them look wonderful. This video gives three options for potting them up for pops of beauty indoors.