Pick over gooseberries in full fruit, removing young green berries for cooking and leaving enough to mature for dessert.

Boost gladioli with a liquid feed every two weeks from now, until the first flower.

Remove the growing points from early peas which have finished flowering to concentrate energies on pod production.

Cut back rock plants after flowering and trim trailing plants in the rock garden.

Deadhead roses to encourage repeat flowering unless they are being grown for their hips.

Clip fast-growing established hedges such as privet.

Watch out for cabbage white butterfly caterpillars which will be hatching out now. Inspect the undersides of the leaves on your brassicas and if you come across small clusters of yellow eggs, squash them.

Carefully remove faded flowers from rhododendrons and camellias.

Cut faded foliage from spring-flowering bulbs six weeks after the blooms have faded.

Prune weigela and philadelphus when they have finished flowering, cutting out a portion of older wood.

Take semi-ripe cuttings of shrubs and root them in a propagating frame.