Date:  May 1, 2026  |   Story: Tiffany Adams  |   Photography: Rett Peek  |   Styling: Julia Glover  |  

If sunny days have you itching to get outside, perhaps it’s time to do a little digging in the dirt. May is the ideal month to give your green thumb a workout by filling containers with annuals, shaping up shrubs, and even planting seeds or seedlings for a vegetable or flower garden. Whether you fancy begonias or zinnias, cucumbers or squash, enjoy the time spent outside and the therapeutic effect of watching something new sprout.