At last! The warmer weather is just around the corner and that means getting out into the garden.
For many Wearsiders, a trip to the garden centre will be on the cards, just as it was for these people in nine retro Echo photos.
1. Cultivating plenty of memories
9 Sunderland and East Durham garden centre scenes to get you out and about - retro style. | se
2. Live from Lambton Park
Judy Prowse broke the world snake sit-in record in 1986 by being penned in with four pythons and a boa constrictor at Lambton Park Garden Centre. Judy spent 51 hours with the snakes and broke the record by an hour. | se
3. Planting a 1995 memory
The Little Shop of Horrors came to Clays Garden Centre in this Echo scene from April 1995. | se
4. Happy times at Horns
The staff from Horns Garden Centre were in the picture in this Echo photo from June 2003. | se
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