JANUARY

Order your flower seeds from mail order catalogues. After a frosty spell, remove dead winter pansy flowers and stems and the plant should flower again.

Plant out summer bedding. Bring out planted containers and hanging baskets (when frost free). Water feed and deadhead flowers. Pick sweet peas regularly.

Once the first flush of flowers comes to an end you’ll need to start deadheading regularly. It’s good to get into the habit of giving boarders, baskets and tubs a good going over at least once a week.

FEBRUARY

In mild, dry conditions you could plant out early spring bulbs.

APRIL

Deadhead daffodils. Plant up hanging baskets and tubs towards the end of the month if you have room to keep them under glass.

MARCH

Sow hardy annuals. Pot up plug plants. Plant spring bedding, flowering spring bulbs and lily bulbs.

MAY

Continue deadheading spring-flowering bulbs. Clear spring flowering plants. Plant and train sweet peas. When frost free plant tubs, baskets, troughs and window boxes with summer bedding.

SEPTEMBER, OCTOBER

Clear summer bedding. Plant winter bedding and spring bulbs in containers.

NOVEMBER, DECEMBER

Plant tulips and lily bulbs. Sow seed of hardy plants.