5 garden tips to try in your yard this week, April 27-May 3

1. Take cover
Plant summer annuals and groundcovers. Campanula poscharskyana is a low-growing evergreen groundcover that prefers shade or filtered sunlight and blooms in spring with heavy clusters light blue inch-wide stars. Most of the year it is under three inches high but flower clusters may rise to a billowy eight inches for a short while. Add sea lavender, or perennial statice, Limonium perezii, for another beautiful shade of blue in the garden. It blooms throughout spring, summer and fall,