• Continue planting up pots, baskets & borders with bedding plants water regularly to help them establish.

• Tie in new stems of climbing and rambling roses to supports.

• Pinch outshoots on fuchsias to encourage bushier growth.

• Start feeding containers and baskets with a liquid feed every few weeks.

• Start to pick sweet pea flowers as this will encourage more flowers.

• Use soft ties to tie in new clematis shoots.

• Stake perennials like hollyhocks & Delphiniums to prevent damage in the wind.

• Dead head repeat flowering roses.

• Give wisteria its summer prune cutting all the long side shoots back to 20cm, to promote flowering for next spring.

• Dot a few French marigolds around tomato plants - these strongly scented flowers will help deter insect pests.

• Keep the surface of ponds clean by removing floating weeds. Use a net to scoop out mats of tiny-leaved duck weed and twirl hair-like blanket weed from the surface with a stick or garden cane – before putting on the compost heap, leave on the edge of the pond overnight so any aquatic creatures can crawl back into the water.