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Summer 2022 Walt Disney theme park hotel packages in Orlando are now on sale with TUI.

Seven-night holidays start at £1,225 per person at Disney’s All-star Movies Resort for travel in May or June. Flights are available from various UK airports.

A $200 Disney gift card is included for selected dates booked before June 30. tui.co.uk

A new spectacular cycle tour through Wales from Abergavenny to Holy Island has just been announced. Riding around 60 miles a day, you’ll weave through the Brecon Beacons, Snowdonia National

Park, the

Yorkshire

Dales to

Berwickupon-tweed.

From £1,595 per person, B&B. Includes staying in hotels, lunches, snacks, van and mechanical support and luggage transfers.

wildatlanticcycling.com

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The seeds of most outdoor spring-sown crops won’t germinate until the soil has warmed up to 7C, so be patient or start them off indoors.

Start chitting potatoes.

Have you pruned your shrub roses? It’s time to cut them back and cut out old or diseased stems.

You can help your soil heat up in the veg patch by using cloches. This can be as simple as a plastic bottle cut in half.

Early March is the time to prune summer and autumn flowering clematis.

Lift and divide hostas before they come into leaf.

Summer flowering shrubs, such as fuchsia, spiraea, perovskia, lavatera, buddleja, and deciduous ceanothus, like ‘Gloire de Versailles’, usually flower on new growth, so a good chop now will stimulate plenty of this.

Mulch shrub beds with well-rotted manure or compost organic matter to retain moisture and reduce weeds.

Lift and divide summer flowering perennials such as rudbeckia, hemerocallis, aster and heleniums.