This month begins with the last day of a lovely long Easter weekend so hopefully everyone should be nicely rested and not too full of Easter eggs. National Gardening Week begins on the 15th April 2013 with leading organisations, garden centres and experts helping to raise awareness and encourage new people to get gardening.

With frosts still lurking the main garden jobs continue to be tidying up, digging in fresh mulch and compost and generally getting the garden ready for a glorious summer – we hope! Whilst the garden is still emerging from hibernation it is the perfect time to colour and protect garden timber making your sheds and fences an integral and exciting part of your garden design.

April’s colours have to celebrate some of the more subtle and muted new colours to be added this month to the Royal Exterior and Interior range.