Cleaning up trees and shrubs should top your to-do list. The rest will depend on the time of year.

Skip the canning and the pickling. Sometimes the simplest way to preserve the harvest is to do nothing at all.

This is the season for planting bulbs. When the snow starts to melt, their cheerful blossoms are the first sign of spring.

The plentiful blooms make a powerful argument for late bloomers. But the tomatoes, sigh, are taking their own sweet time.

A bird bath finds new use as a planter for succulents.