The changing of the calendar on the wall heralds the start of a new gardening season once more.

Peter Dowdall says its time to think of colourful summer foliage and time to re-invent an old annual. 

One Vernal Equinox later and we can be fresher, tidier, slimmer and happier, says Kya deLongchamps.

Spring officially begins today, the day of the vernal equinox.