Mike Palmer celebrates the seasonal awakening of our gardens from their winter slumbers with trees, shrubs, perennials and bulbs to get seriously excited about

Sometimes even trusty garden favourites need replacing, so embrace change!

Don’t wait for summer to realise your garden’s not up to scratch. The best time to sort your green space is now

Picotee-pink-edged, large flowers that look at you from a tall stem. Followed by marbled evergreen leaves. A sterile cultivar from Rodney Davey, it flowers prolifically as its energy is saved for flow

Erysimum Rysi Copper One of the definitions of a wallflower is that of a shy and awkward person with whom nobody wants to dance: I am sure we have all felt like that at some point in our adolescence.

Make more plants this month by dividing perennials, sowing hardy annuals and planting summer bulbs