What to do in the Garden
Spring
March
- X Plant up containers with hardy plants
- X Move evergreen shrubs
- X Prune bush and shrub roses (not ramblers)
- X Prune winter coloured stems (Cornus, Salix)
- X Plant and divide perennials
- X Direct sow hardy annuals
April
- X Apply fertilisers
- X Plant evergreen hedges - holly, box, Garrya elliptica
- X Plant container grown trees and shrubs
- X Prune forsythias and Chaenomeles (flowering quince)
- X Cut back silver leaved shrubs - lavender, Santolina
- X Keep planting and dividing perennials
- X Plant summer bulbs - dahlias, cannas and gladioli
- X Continue sowing hardy annuals and sow annual climbers
May
- X Prune pyracantha’s
- X Trim formal evergreen hedging
- X Prune early-flowering shrubs - Kerria japonica and Spiraea ‘Arguta’
- X Prune Clematis montana - after flowering remove dead, diseased and damaged wood and then prune to size (group 1)
- X Deadhead spring-flowering bulbs
- X Cut back Alyssum, Arabis and Aubretia after flowering
- X Sow perennials outside - achillea’s and hardy geraniums