Welcome to The May Edition, a hand-picked collection of expert features, all designed to help you make the most of your garden’s most abundant season. Late spring is bringing warmer days, and with it, flourishing borders and rapid growth across the garden. After all those hard months of planning and preparation, everything is finally beginning to burst forth with life and color.

Gardening in May is all about nurturing new growth. As temperatures rise and the risk of frost passes, now is the perfect time to plant out tender flowers and vegetables in most zones, fill containers with seasonal color, and maintain rampantly-growing lawns and borders. If you planned ahead, you may also be harvesting early crops, supporting climbing plants, and encouraging healthy blooms that will carry the garden beautifully into summer.

Let this guide inspire you to embrace all the promise this wonderful season has to offer. Click the images below to explore each feature, and enjoy the garden as it reaches its stride.