AS your readers return to their gardens to enjoy the warmer spring weather, we are calling on them to help us in our search for the UK?s most talented and inspiring blind gardeners. At the charity Thrive, we help people with all kinds of disabilities enjoy gardening ? not just for pleasure but also for its valuable and proven therapeutic benefits. Thrive has just launched a new National Blind Gardeners? Club, run in partnership with the Royal National Institute of the Blind (RNIB). The club will provide regular publications, practical advice and a range of courses held across the country to help gardeners with all levels of visual impairments. To coincide with this, we have begun the 2006 Blind Gardener of the Year competition, with winners sought across a range of innovative categories, and are calling for entries from all over the UK. The deadline for competition entries is the end of July. Generous prizes have been donated by the horticultural industry, including Harcostar, Peta Easi-Grip(r) Tools, Suttons, Westland Horticulture, Wiggly Wigglers and the Able Gardener website. To enter or find out more visit http://www.thrive.org.uk">www.thrive.org.uk or call 0118 988 5688. Nicola Carruthers Chief executive Thrive