The constant gardener

May

Garden diary

Trees and shrubs are best planted or transplanted now, so they can settle in before the cold, and are ready to take off once the soil and air warms up in spring. Water in well. Plant a fruit tree – the world, and your family, can never have too many.

It’s a good time, too, to divide crowded perennials and grasses, and to shift them around if they didn’t perform as well as they could have where they were. Or if they just didn’t look good. The mobility of smaller plants is