Soil Preparation and Planting:
Plant container-grown and frost-tender evergreen
trees in prepared ground.

Routine Care:
Water new plants well. Feed and mulch potted plants,
repot to next size if necessary. Feed established trees
at the recommended rate, and mulch with well-rotted
manure or compost; check any stakes or ties. Check
for borers or other damage. Remove suckers.

Pruning and Training:
In early spring- carry out formative pruning but leave
spring-flowering trees until after they have finished
flowering. Cut-out dead, diseased and damaged
wood, and weak growth. Root prune if necessary.
Coppice or pollard plants grown for summer foliage
or winter stems. Clip topiary regularly.

Propagation:
Collect and sow seed. Take softwood cuttings.
Carry out air layering and, in early spring, simple layering.

Soil Preparation and Planting:
Plant all shrubs in well-prepared ground or in containers when conditions permit.

Routine Care:
Feed and mulch established shrubs in early spring. Dead-head shrubs that have flowered, unless seed is wanted. Remove suckers and reverted shoots. Repot or top-dress shrubs in pots.

Pruning and Training:
In early spring, prune and renovate evergreen shrubs and ones that flower in summer or auturn on new wood, such as hibiscus , or winter flowerers such as thryptomene. In late spring, prune shrubs that have finished flowering., if appropriate. Carry out formative pruning and training. Prune or renovate evergreen hedges. Root prune vigorous shrubs or those in containers. Coppice or pollard plants grown for foliage or coloured stems.

Propagation:
Take softwood (soft-tip), and later, greenwood cuttings. Sow seed. Carry out simple and tip layering and stooling. In early spring, divide suckering evergreen shrubs.

Soil Preparation and Planting:
When conditions are mild and moist, plant climbers in prepared ground or in containers.

Routine Care:
In early spring, feed and mulch established plants. Water, young plants. Dead-head treat-flowering species, unless seed is wanted. Repot or top-dress climbing plants in containers (expect for spring-flowering plants).

Pruning and Training:
In early spring, carry out formative and renovation pruning; prune and shape climbers that have flowered, such as jasmine and pandorea. Choose and tie in shoots.

Propagation:
Sow seed of most climbers, and transplant fast-growing ones to enriched, prepared soil in the garden; pot on slow-growing climbers. In early spring-carry out layering; in late spring, take softwood (soft-tip) cuttings.

Soil Preparation and Planting:
In early spring, plant container-grown perennials, including summer-flowering plants such as agapanthus, in prepared ground.

Routine Care:
Feed and mulch established plants. Water new plants regularly if needed. Stake if need support later on. Repot or top-dress plants in containers.

Pruning and Training:
Shape shrubby perennials as growth increases. Pinch-prune if needed or "stop" young shoots; or thin dense shoots.

Propagation:
Sow seed collected the previous summer or autumn Continue dividing fleshy-rooted plants.. Take basal cuttings and start taking stem tip cuttings.

Soil Preparation and Planting:
Prepare ground for planting, incorporating a generous amount of organic matter. Plant seedlings of bennials and summer-flowering annuals, and perennials grown as annuals, in prepared ground outdoors (in warm conditions), or in containers.

Routine Care:
Water plants regularly. Fertilise and mulch with well-rotted manure or compost. Stake tall and slender-stemmed plants and climbers. Pinch out shoots on plants that need bushier growth.

Propagation:
Sow seed of summer-flowering annuals and biennials and rhen grow on as above.

Soil Preparation and Planting:
In early to mid-spring, plant summer- and auturn-flowering bulbs in prepared ground in the garden, or in containers.

Routine Care:
Feed and water established plants until foliage dies down. Dead-head regularly to extend the season, unless seed is needed.

Stake tall plants with slender stems.
Repot or top-dress bulbs in pots. After flowering, transplant spring bulbs growing in pots to the open garden. Cut grass after naturalised bulbs die back.

Propagation:
Sow seed. Collect ripe seed of early-flowering plants. In early spring, take stem cuttings of dahlias and begonias.

Soil Preparation and Planting:
In mild, moist conditions, plant container-grown roses in prepared ground.

Routine Care:
Water new plants regularly. In early spring, feed mulch and water establsihed plants. Remove weeds. Watch for aphids and discourage them early by hosing them off plants. Encourage ladybird larvae and other insect predators; use pestides as a lst resort. Repot or top-dress roses in pots. Watch for signs of fungal disease and spray with fungicide if needed. Dead-head.

Pruning and Training:
Prune old roses and ramblers that bloom once each year in spring, after flowering. Trim back over-long shoots of some lax varieties.

Propagation:
In early spring, divide rooted suckers from roses growing on their own roots.

Soil Preparation and Planting:
In Mid-spring, plant succulents in prepared raised beds or desert gardens.

Routine Care:
In early spring, feed and start watering. Keep soil moist for epiphytes still in flower. Repot any plants that need it.

Propagation:
Sow seed under cover until late spring. In early to mid-spring, take , leaf and stem cuttings or sections. Start to carry out flat and side grafting. Divide plants.

Soil Preparation and Planting:
Continue to plant rock garden plants in prepared ground or in containers.

Routine Care:
Feed established plants, and mulch or replenish top-dressings if necessary. Repot herbaceous and shrubby plants. Plant out dwarf bulbs that have flowered in pots. Trim and shape over-vigorous or straggly plants.

Pruning and Training:
In early spring, prune evergreen rock garden shrubs if appropriate,. Cut out any dead or damaged rosettes.

Propagation:
Take leaf and basal cuttings. In early spring divide clump-forming plants. Later, take softwood (soft-tip) cuttings.

Soil Preparation and Planting:
Prepare the planting sites and start planting aquatic and marginals. Plant bog, moisture-loving, matforming and deep-water plants.

Routine Care:
In mid-spring, clear away any blanketweed. Thin out submerged plants. Divide and replant, or repot overcrowded water lillies and other aquatic and bog plants. Regularly remove dead and decaying leaves and flowers.

Propagation:
Sow seed of tropical water lilies. Take softwood (soft-tip) cuttings of submerged plants. Divide marginal and mat-forming plants, and collect turions for replanting.

Soil Preparation and Planting:
Thoroughly prepare the site for new lawn at least a month before sowing seed or laying turf. In early spring, lay couch turf and turf of other warm and cool season grasses such as buffalo, zoysia and perennial ryegrass. Plant sprigs or runners.

Routine Care:
Mow and water regularly. When growth is good, repair damaged areas of lawn. Later in the season, lightly scarify lawn and apply fertiliser. If moss present apply lawn sand. Watch for signs of damage by pests and apply insecticides if needed.

Propagation:
Sow seed of warm and cool season grasses.

Soil Preparation and Planting:
Plant container-grown herbs in prepared ground or in pots, when conditions permit.

Routine Care and Harvesting:
Water and feed newly planted herbs. Repot or top-dress plants in containers. Water regularly and feed when needed. Harvest leaves as wanted.

Pruning and Training:
Prune shrubby herbs after flowering if growth exceeds space provided. Carry out transplanting.

Propagation:
Make successive sowings of seed of perennial, biennial and annual herbs. Later in the season, take stem tip cuttings using new growth that snaps when bent sharply, and softwood (soft-tip) cuttings Mound-layer shrubby and spreading herbs. Divide roots.

Soil Preparation and Planting:
In early spring, plant perennial vegetables, such as asparagus and rhubarb, in ground that has been enriched with plenty of organic matter. Plant seedlings of warm-season annual vegetables and any container-grown ones.

Routine Care:
Water newly planted vegetables and fertilise when needed. Erect supports for those vegetables that need them, eg. Beans, tomatoes and cucumbers Weed regularly around establish plants, and apply mulches such as well-rotted manure or compost. Watch for signs of mildew on leaves of cucurbits.

Propagation:
Sow seed of perennial, biennial and all the warm-season annual vegetables. Sow in pots or seed trays, or direct outside when soil is warm enough.

Soil Preparation and Planting:
Plant Citrus and warm-climate fruits in prepared ground or in containers.

Routine Care:
Begin feeding and mulching. Water regularly when necessary. In cool regions, protect fruit-tree flowers from frost and slightly tender plants from frost damage. Check all nets, stakes and ties, and fruit quality and health when harvesting fruit such as citrus, apricots, strawberries ans tamarillos. Clear weeds from around established crops, then feed and mulch them. Make sure stone fruit trees are pollinated. Select framework shoots in second spring of new grape vines. Thin fruitlets on apples, apricots, plums, peaches and nectarines. Start to take precautions against fruit flies.

Pruning and Training:
Prune passionfruit.

Propagation:
Sow seed of fruits that grow true to type from seed, such as tamarilos and passionfruit.

Soil Preparation and Planting:
Plant all ornamentals. Plant up terrariums, bottle gardens and hanging baskets.

Routine Care:
In early spring, "stop" young trailing plants. Pot on, repot or renew top-dressing of established plants when necessary. Start feeding and increase watering once growth is under way; mist-spray indoor plants that need high humidity. Remove any dead leaves and flowers unless seed is needed for propagation.

Pruning and Training:
Prune all weak, damaged or diseased growth. Prune shrubs and climbers that have flowered. Pinch-prune, trim and shape progressively plants that are in growth the year round.

Propagation:
Sow seed of annuals. In early spring, take leaf and softwood (soft-tip) cuttings and leaf sections. Divide or layer plants.