Plant all your summer flowering bulbs now. You can plant gladiolas at 2-week intervals until July to provide you with fresh cut flowers until the first frost.
Set stakes or support systems for your vegetables, perennials and annuals to help support them as they grow.
Continue to feed and care for your daffodils and other spring blooming bulbs until the foliage dies back naturally. Old planting can be dug up, divided and transplanted after they have finished blooming.
Keep your flowers deadheaded. Deadheading helps to promote new blooms. Preventing annuals from seeding will prolong the life of the plant. Letting them go to seed takes energy that could be used to produce more blooms.
Carrots, lettuce, peas, corn, beans and peppers should be planted in you vegetable gardens now.
Early flowering shrubs, such as, spirea, forsythias, camellias and azaleas can be pruned back now if they have finished blooming.
May can be a dry month so don't forget to water your plants. On average, your plants will need about an inch of water every week. Newly planted flora will need to be kept watered until they are established regardless of it's drought tolerance. Once they are established you can begin to cut back on the water. Look at my Drought Tolerant plant list and
see which plants are best for hot, dry places.
see which plants are best for hot, dry places.
