😱 It's Late Spring Already? ✂️Late Spring Checklist & Pruning List

Published: Fri, 05/15/26

Updated: Sat, 05/16/26

Happy Friday, friends!

The Royal Horticultural Society’s Chelsea Flower Show is next week, and I’ve been stalking the RHS website to see all the gorgeous flowers and events for this year. I was mid-scroll when it struck me – the Chelsea Flower Show is always in mid-spring.

That’s right, folks. It’s mid-spring.

In a few weeks, summer will be here. Are you ready? Is your garden ready? I know I’m not. I have so many things I need to do out in the garden over the next two or three weekends.

So, to get all of us ready, Mickey and I have put together a couple of helpful lists. I have a list of late spring garden tasks you need to make sure you do before summer arrives. Mickey has a list of flowering bushes that need to be pruned in late spring and she shows you how to prune them!

Ready? Set? Go!

9 Flowering Shrubs You Need to Prune in Late Spring

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7 Late Spring Tasks You Need to Do to Make Summer Gardening Easy

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I first came across the term "edimental" when I was looking up whether I could eat this mesmerizing little plant that I had bought on impulse. It's called purple Shiso (aka Perilla frutescens var. crispa)

How To Make A Spring Herbal Infused Vinegar

If you truly believe that food is medicine and you know from experience that many wild foods can be foraged for free, then there should be nothing standing in the way between you and a

Dealing With Bindweed - The Best Approach to Eliminate It

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Tracey Besemer

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