Providing this month’s tips is Richard A Baines Curator at Logan Botanic Garden
Garden tips for June
GORDON’S GARDEN The restoration of the 8.5 acre walled
garden at Gordon Castle in Speyside is progressing apace with plans to open a cafe, gift shop and children’s play area in the late spring or early summer. The garden also has a new addition in the shape of head gardener Don Pritchard. He will be responsible for the continued build and planting of the garden, which has been designed by Arne Maynard. He also plans to lead visitors on guided tours, host educational trips and provide a regular supply of seasonal produce to the cafe.
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Best in show The winning designs in the Artisan Garden
Design Competition, which has been held in advance of Gardening Scotland 2014, have been chosen. The teams behind each of the chosen submissions have been awarded £2,000 to help turn their plans into reality at the show. The winners include a garden to highlight the work of a horticultural charity, one that will fl ourish at a children’s hospital and a third to encourage support for the NSPCC. Gardening Scotland takes place from 30 May until 1 June at The Royal Highland Centre near Edinburgh.
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Pictured below: Design for NSPCC Scotland’s Garden of Childhood Adventure designed by Louise Wakeling, a student on the HND Garden Design course at SRUC Ayr.
Old fashioned biennials, such as wallfl owers and Sweet Williams, may be out of favour at present but they have a lot to recommend them; they are easy to grow, provide excellent value for money and never fail to deliver a sea of colour. June is the ideal month to sow biennials before transplanting them into their fl owering positions in the autumn. So why not start a revival? They would be ideal next year alongside bulbs such as tulips.
Shrubs that have already flowered can be pruned now, but only if necessary. This will depend on the type of shrub that is being grown and the amount of space that it has been allocated. For example, while Pyracantha should be pruned annually when grown against a wall, it is not necessary to prune them at all if they are grown as free standing shrubs.
Climbers such as Clematis montana and Chaenomeles ‘quinces’ should be pruned hard to keep them tidy.
Late June is the ideal time to trim back evergreen hedges, once fl owering has fi nished. All fl owering shoots of plants such as Berberis thunbergii should be cut back suffi ciently to give the hedge a neat, tidy appearance.
Roses require constant
attention this month to ensure they are looking their best. A persistent pest attacking them is greenfly. Spraying with a recommended insecticide at fortnightly intervals will control the feeding adults and their eggs. Towards the end of the month, keep a look out for black spot. This unsightly disease shows up, as the name suggests, as black spots on the leaves. This weakens the plant and in extreme situations can kill it. To control it, plant
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disease-resistant cultivars and spray with a recommended fungicide.
Regular watering of hanging baskets and tubs is a necessary chore; they dry out quickly even after heavy rain. If you are to be away on holiday, perhaps a friendly neighbour will look after them for you. If you installed a water butt linked in to a down pipe on the house, you could enjoy a ready supply of water near the plants.
In the vegetable garden, remember to weed regularly and water young plants when weather is dry. Now is an ideal time to make succession sowings of crops such as spring onions, cauliflowers and lettuce. These can provide an ongoing harvest throughout the summer months.
If strawberries are left to their own devices they will produce numerous runners all summer long. To produce new plants, runners should be pegged down with a metal pin into either a sunken pot or directly into the ground. After approximately three weeks the runners will have rooted and can be transplanted into their new positions. It is important to keep the runners and parent plants well watered during the rooting process. With the rising cost of fruit why not start off a new strawberry bed or give some to your neighbour?
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