Soil conditions and frost risk mean patience is essential

REAL readers' gardens!

What to plant, grow, prune and buy this month for your great outdoors

It’s time for sowing, planting alpine containers and living screens and tidying up old growth

Give flowering house plants a general house-plant feed every two weeks throughout spring, then switch to a weekly high-potash house-plant food as flower buds develop. Orchids don’t like heavy doses of

What to plant, pot and prune this month, plus a few treats to buy and inspiration further afield