The American Methodist minister Virgil A Kraft once wrote: “Spring shows what God can do with a drab and dirty world.” Whether a deity is responsible or the vagaries of the British climate, someone has managed to work a miracle: and this week Britain is beginning to look as if it has just been photoshopped. The long cold winter is over, and the drab and dirty world of recent weeks is about to be transformed. Plant experts are predicting that the freezing temperatures of the past few weeks followed by several days of glorious sunshine will bring spectacular blossom and bumper crops of fruit. People should enjoy it while they can. It may be a spectacular spring, say horticulturists, but it will also be a…

Source: The Times April 15, 2018 23:02 UTC