glorious and uplifting green hue, with trees breaking into leaf and fresh shoots, full of promise, emerging from the ground. The surge of growth encourages us to garden with more vim and vigour, and those plants that needed a little more protection and to be left alone during the winter and early spring can now be pruned to embrace the warmer season ahead. Tender plants, such as penstemon, salvia, pittosporum and fatsia, can have any winter-damaged stems removed now to make
