Early spring like March and April is the time to plant perennials like forsythias, daffodils and pansies. But gardeners should wait until around Mother’s Day to plant other flowers and annuals that bloom throughout the summer like tomatoes and peppers.

But you may have heard spring begins on the 1 March which has already come and gone, so why do we have two different dates? It's because there are two separate spring seasons. The first is known as the meteorological season,