Happy Garden Day.
We dug up nine fantastic Sunderland scenes to get you in the mood for the May 12 event which aims to show how a spell in the garden can improve your wellbeing.
Join us as we cultivate Echo archive memories from Pallion, Millfield, Doxford Park and Southwick.

1. Dig in to these gardening memories
The countdown is on to Garden Day with 9 Sunderland scenes to get you reminiscing. | se

2. A bout of gardening in 2005
These young boxers were ready to do a few rounds of gardening at Doxford House in April 2005. | se

3. Memories from Millfield
A newly formed residents group was given land to create a new garden behind St Mark's Church in March 2006. | se

4. Hard at work in 2009
Catherine Gardner and John Parkes from the Princes Trust were doing great work by tidying up the garden at Ashlea Grange care home in August 2009. | se