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Flowers checklist

Flowers checklist

4 - 10 June 2007

Planting bedding begonias

Use this page as a checklist for this week's most important tasks.

It's printer friendly so you could pin it up in your garden shed.

It's time to...

It's time to...
  • Plant out tender summer-bedding plants, such as begonias, once all risk of frost has passed
  • Look out for aphids on lupins, and spray with a soap-based insecticide if infected
  • Push canes into pots of tall-growing lilies and tie their stems to it for support
  • Cut down pulmonarias and doronicum, then drench the soil around them with a liquid feed
  • Lift and divide clumps of primulas
  • Cut back the foliage of daffodils to clear beds for summer planting
  • Trim leaves and faded flowers from oriental poppies to encourage new growth

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