There's never been a better time to get out in the garden this May Bank Holiday. It's a perfect time to get in those summer flowers and with new plants, full of buds and blooms, being delivered almost everyday at this time of year, you'll always find the freshest and best quality plants for your garden here at Ardcarne Garden Centre.

Of course it's a busy time in the fruit and vegetable garden too and if you want to catch up on what to do now in your polytunnels and vegetable gardens, do come along to a FREE Customer event on growing your own crops this Saturday (see below for details).

Have you noticed ornamental crab apples (see picture above) in flower at the moment? These wonderful small trees are just fabulous for colour now, from flowers and often foliage too. As an encore they usually have colourful fruit later in the year. Come in soon and see our selection of great varieties.

Hope to see you soon 

This little known plant is one of the prettiest perennials for this time of year when it becomes generously sprinkled with purest blue flowers. The flowers, which appear above its evergreen leaves, last for weeks - often until mid-summer. 

Lithodora is a great plant for the front of a border or in a rockery and the only requirement it needs is to be planted in a reasonably sunny place with Ericaceous Compost (the same lime-free compost used for rhododendrons)

Use slug pellets sparingly on vulnerable plants such as hostas and young vegetable seedlings. If you prefer to garden without chemicals choose SLUGGO, a slug and snail pellet approved for organic growers.