The May Edition: Your Month in the Garden

May is a vibrant month in the garden. From planting summer favourites to harvesting early crops, explore stories to help your garden thrive in late spring.

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Welcome to The May Edition, a hand-picked collection of expert features, all designed to help you make the most of your garden’s most abundant season. Late spring is bringing warmer days, and with it, flourishing borders and rapid growth across the garden. After all those hard months of planning and preparation, everything is finally beginning to burst forth with life and color.

Gardening in May is all about nurturing new growth. As temperatures rise and the risk of frost passes, now is the perfect time to plant out tender flowers and vegetables in most zones, fill containers with seasonal color, and maintain rampantly-growing lawns and borders. If you planned ahead, you may also be harvesting early crops, supporting climbing plants, and encouraging healthy blooms that will carry the garden beautifully into summer.

Let this guide inspire you to embrace all the promise this wonderful season has to offer. Click the images below to explore each feature, and enjoy the garden as it reaches its stride.

Read more about flowers to start in May. Image shows cosmos

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Read more about plants to prune in May. Image shows gardener pruning butterfly bush

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Read more about vegetables to grow in May. Image shows gardener picking tomatoes

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Read more about hardy perennials to plant in May. Image shows pink columbine flowers

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Read more about helping hummingbirds. Image shows hummingbird landing on flower

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Read more about lawn care in May. Image shows gardener mowing the lawn

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Read more about making free plants by propagating through division. Image shows a gardener dividing phlox plants

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