SPRING INTO ACTION NOW

If you can’t celebrate spring this year in your garden, do it next year!

IT’S ALL ABOUT BLOSSOM, DEARIE Now’s the time for tree planting, and many ornamental fruit trees don’t need much room. A weeping cherry tree (Prunus pendula) is a wonderful centrepiece – its branches sweep the ground and are breathtaking in spring. A callery pear (Pyrus calleryana) is stunning all year round – profuse blossoms in spring, luxuriant leaves in summer and wondrous autumn foliage.

THIS IS A LIGHT BULB MOMENT Look around and see where your garden’s bare patches can benefit from a lile spring fever – a daffodil or tulip or two, or 200 – and imagine it next year. Carpets of colour, pathways of perfume and a deluge of delight a€er a bleak winter. Be er Homes and Gardens has a spring bulb offer every April where you can order your bulbs to plant just before winter descends, so your flowers rise in spring!