1. Rural Reading: Wildflowers form amazing tapestries

You can’t fail to notice wild-flowers now. Every roadside verge is a kaleidoscope of colour, most local woodlands are a sea of purple, the hedgerows are a mosaic, the river banks a tapestry.

2. Go Organic: Bide your time before you plant tender summer crops

Tomorrow is May morning and the traditional start of the summer.

3. Keep a weather eye on the garden – and buy a fleece

These are tempting but treacherous times for gardeners.

4. Glorious gardens to visit this weekend

5. Plantlife survey to monitor wildflowers

A survey hopes to encourage Reading people to monitor wildflowers close to home.

6. Be picky when it comes to choosing strawberries

I have never been a big fan of strawberries.

7. Veg out at garden clinic

People wanting to live the good life can take a step towards self-sufficiency by learning how to grow their own fruit and veg with help from a garden centre.

8. Whitethroats: Little miracles of a punctual habit

This week is a regular anniversary that would pass most people by. For more than 20 years whitethroats have returned to the lane at the end of my road on the same date every year.

9. Spring colour crashes into my borders

After a drab winter, the colour is really firing up in my garden.

10. Help to get those veg growing

Two garden centres are offering green-fingered individuals advice on the best way to grow their own fruit and vegetables.