Weekly jobs

Unless frost is forecast, which is unlikely at this stage, there are a number of jobs you can get on with.

Your pots and hanging baskets can now go outside permanently if you have been gradually acclimatising them in the last few weeks. If not, start to leave them outside during the day so they can adjust gradually.

You can plant tender plants, such as cannas and dahlias, and sow tender annuals outdoors. It’s summer bedding time, so if you fancy some colour, plant some pelargoniums, begonias, lobelias and antirrhinums in your pots and beds.

In the vegetable garden, you can sow seeds that had until now to be sown indoors – such as pumpkins, courgettes, squash, French beans and sweetcorn – directly outdoors.

Keep going with the successional sowing of quick-to-grow crops, such as salad, beetroot and radish.

Overcrowded spring bulbs can be lifted and divided once they start to die down.

Try hanging pheromone traps in apple trees to reduce the chance of codling moth damage to fruit.

Lawns will love a feed of high-nitrogen fertiliser. bouquet flower – it was in Meghan Markle’s bouquet and also in Kate’s when she married Wills.

Its perfume is beloved of perfumiers and soap makers, and is the key scent for Christian Dior’s classic Diorissimo.

Great as groundcover in semi-shade providing the ground retains moisture.

There’s also a pretty cultivar ‘Rosea’ whose flowers have a gentle pink flush.