Gardening Cuttings: Spring castle

LEEDS CASTLE, just east of Maidstone in Kent, starts its Spring Garden Week today. Daffodils, narcissi and anemones are at their height in the woodland garden, hot-house flowers are bursting out of the greenhouses. The many special events include a gardeners' question time session next Wednesday with Anne Swithinbank and Pippa Greenwood. For tickets ( pounds 2.50) for this event phone 0622 765400. From 1-3 April there are demonstrations of flower arranging in the castle. Leeds Castle is open daily (11am-5pm). Admission to castle and grounds pounds 6.50.