Items to remember:

• Balcony boxes and tubs are planted mid-month.
• Plant gladioli and dahlias into the flowerbed after the last frost.
• Watch roses carefully! Timely treat them with fungicides when powdery mildew and blackspot occurs.
• Basil is one of the favorite foods of snails. Therefore you should move them to tiered stands or wall brackets in pots.
• Fertilize evergreen shrubs now.
• Remove wild shoots on roses (tear off)