Time for a bonfire of colour!
Begonia bonfire is a very free flowering border plant that produces a mass of colour irrespective of the weather conditions over the summer months. The colourful blooms are produced on mass and are ideal for filling gaps in shrub borders and flower beds.
Once planted this colourful plant will flower for months and can be lifted in early winter and stored indoors over the winter as a bulb and replanted next summer for another year of colour.
Begonias are now available in a wide variety of colours and are ideal for a stunning show of colour in pots, borders and beds.
Jobs in the garden this week!
- Early June is an excellent time to plant a Japanese maple plant in your garden or in a large container. The beautiful purple foliage provides a stunning show of colour from spring right up until early winter. Japanese maples are easy to grow and provide a wonderful show of colour and shape in any garden or container Click here to see our Japanese maple
- Lawn clover is wide spread in many garden lawns, the rich green foliage and bright white flowers is adapt at growing and thriving in the recent warm dry weather. Lawn clover spreads by under ground stems and from the seeds produced later in the summer. Remove it now from your lawn with a dressing of Scott’s Renovator lawn treatment. Renovator will kill unwanted lawn weeds and also feed your lawn producing a rich green colour without forcing growth Click here to see our Renovator
- Sow some cabbage from seed now, the variety I recommend is called April, it produces lovely rich green cone shaped heads ideal for using in late winter and early spring, simply sow the seeds out of doors in a ridge or drill. The young plants will be ideal for planting into the ground after you dig your first early potatoes Click here to see our April Cabbage
- Give the kids something to do this summer, now is the ideal time to sow Shamrock seed to provide you with lots of rich green shamrock plants for next march’s st Patrick’s Day. Shamrock seed is now available for sowing or for posting abroad to relatives and friends of Ireland Click here to see our Shamrock Seed
- Carrots can be attacked this month by carrot root fly, protect your plants with a dressing of carrot root fly treatment. This treatment can be applied now to young developing carrots and will kill the carrot root fly grubs on contact. Simply mix the carrot root fly with water and drench onto the developing young carrots to kill and control carrot root fly attack Click here to see our Karate Carrot Root fly treatment
- Grow your own flowering plants from seed, wallflowers, sweet William, winter flowering pansies, polyanthus, antirrhinums and Lupins can all be sown from seed now. You have a wide selection of seed to choose from, I recommend the Thompson and Morgan range of seeds for a super variety of colours and type’s. Seed can be sown directly out of doors now Click here to see our selection of Flower seeds
- Take cuttings from geraniums now, they are simple to root and grow. Select young new growth, dip in rooting powder, and place into a small pot of compost and cover with a polythene bag. Cuttings will root in a couple of weeks and make nice strong plants before autumn Click here to see our Geraniums
- Tomato and pepper plants will require weekly feeding from mid June on, I use One liquid feed on all my fruiting plants. One not only feeds your plants but also stimulates the plant into producing new growth and fruit. One liquid feed is easy to use and ideal for a wide range of flower and foliage plants Click here to see our One liquid plant feed
- Sow a wild flower meadow this month, its any ideal way to add colour and wildlife interest to your garden. A wild flower meadow is ideal for larger areas in your garden and rewards you with a mixture of meadow grass and wild flowers which attract a wide range of wildlife to your garden.
- Potato crops are growing strongly and now is the time to add some organic chicken manure fertiliser to the young stems to encourage strong growth and bigger tubers – apply a handful of organic chicken manure to each plant now and again in mid July Click here to see our Chicken Manure Pellets
- Garden timber furniture will benefit from a dressing of wood treatment to clean the wood and enhance the natural colour. Garden furniture wood treatment is now available for a wide range of outdoor timber furniture and not only restores the wood to its natural colour; it helps to protect the furniture from the weather.
- Summer flowering roses can be planted now, they have just come into flower, and if planted now will flower from June to early winter. Roses are available in a wide variety of colours and heights. Click here to see our range of Rose's Remember to feed existing roses with Rose food once a month and apply a dressing of rose clear to all roses Click here to see our Rose Food
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