Climate wise Britain is a bit weird.
It's positioned on the globe at the same latitude as the coldest parts of Russia and Canada but we can grow palm trees.
This is England (not at the moment I hasten to add) :
It's the gulf stream.
Central Scotland is usually the most wet and windy place but this year England and Wales have been getting the floods and the sandsmog.
The garlic and broadbeans should go out in the Autumn. They pop up the same time as the daffodils.