Mzz B’s June garden

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This May  and the beginning of June has been a challenging month for the garden, with such unpredictable weather.

But the garden will have welcomed the rain. Looking back to last year  the garden seems to be still well ahead, with lots of thing going over fast. The garden does seem to be a jungle with weeds growing fast and lots of plants seem to be taller than usual.

It also been a very good year for a number of plants like foxgloves which seem to have grown taller and roses -see photos.

There are lots of jobs to do in June:

• Give Wisteria its summer prune, cutting all the long side shoots back to 20cm to promote flowering next spring.

• Cut back spring-flowering perennials, such as pulmonaria, to encourage a fresh flush of foliage

• Tie in new stems of climbing and rambling roses horizontally to encourage more flowers.

• Give container displays and hanging baskets a liquid feed every few weeks to encourage flowering

• Fill any gaps in borders with pots of tall bulbs, such as fragrant lilies, to add instant colour

• Prune late-spring or early-summer shrubs after flowering, such as weigela and philadelphus, thinning out the old growth.

• Add marginal plants such as arum lilies and marsh marigolds around the edges of ponds

Take softwood cuttings from herbs such as marjoram and sage. Also soft wood cuttings of hydrangeas and pelargoniums

• Sow biennials like foxgloves, wallflowers, sweet rocket for next year.

• In the veg garden continuing sowing for succession

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