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Flowers checklist

Flowers checklist

23 - 29 June 2008

Tying in climbing rose

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...
  • Tie shoots of honeysuckle and climbing roses to supports
  • Pinch out the shoot tips of dahlias to encourage branching
  • Deadhead lupins as soon as the flowers have faded
  • Propagate wisteria, clematis, honeysuckle and ornamental vines by layering their shoots into the soil
  • Cut down old stems on spring-flowering euphorbias, taking care not to get the milky sap on your skin
  • Give hanging baskets and patio pots a weekly liquid feed
  • Remove flower heads from flag irises as petals fade
  • Prune back flowered stems on lilac, philadelphus, exochorda, deutzia and weigela
  • Propagate dianthus by taking cuttings of non-flowering shoots
  • Sow sweet Williams, wallflowers, Brompton stocks and forget-me-nots now

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