Start preparing your border ready for the coming summer

Enjoy the warming sun in your conservatory or greenhouse this spring

Proctecting plants for the winter,

Pruning shrubs, populus and clematis, roses, evergreens, mahonias.

Look out for pests, start feeding, and light pruning.

Top dressing, dividing plants, and watch out for bulbs starting to break the soil surface.

Early planting, rabbit damage, snowdrops and wind damage to trees

Tidying up, a bit of pruning, and having a good look around the garden, and a new word, fasciation

Preparing for spring, Helleborus, cutting support canes and designing new gardens for later in the year.

Early Acacias and checking pots for dryness.