It’s time to pick your colours, climbers, and ramblers, and be optimistic for the summer

We are at that wonderful time of the year again when spring still feels like a novelty after the long, bleak winter and we are looking forward with optimism once more to the summer.

Growth is speeding up and certain jobs if not done now will run away on you.

Climbers in particular should be tied in during spring, encouraged and trained onto their supports. These supports may be trellis or wire or even a tree trunk.