Regularly Dead head to prolong flowering

Continue to cut and edge grass

Check stakes of tall growing perennials like delphiniums

Add colour to terrace or patio with miniature or patio roses in pots

Introduce additional climbers into the garden

Sow herbaceous perennials for next year

Make fortnightly sowing of salad crops

Check roses for pets, diseases, spray if necessary.

Prune late spring flowering shrubs.

Softwood cutting; Early summer is and ideal time in which to propagate shrubs as the new shoots is beginning to ripen. In taking cuttings strong sturdy shoots should be removed from the plant and a clean cut made just below a joint. Cut should be two or three joints beneath the pint from which foliage springs. Remove excess leaves arrange cuttings around the edge of a pot containing the right compost mixture. (Equal part of sharp sand leaves mould and loam) Water well and place in a cold frame in the shade. As cutting strike increase ventilation, harden off and pot individually.

June brings with it a succession of flowering shrubs, like mock oranges, lilac and lavenders are wonderfully scented and whose fragrance will flood the garden

Summer’s evening. Climbers continue to contribute a well finished look to the garden and early in the summer there is no shortage of rich coloured clematis, exotic passion flowers and honeysuckles. Allow climbers to grow up and though supports and training them along the top of walls fences a trees.

This is the month of wonderfully fragrant roses, of cascading clematis, and borders over-spilling with favourite flowers campanula, delphiniums, dianthus, irises, oriental poppies an sweet smelling violas. All the hard work undertaken in the preceding weeks should now pay off.