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Flowers checklist

Flowers checklist

30 June - 6 July 2008

Saving foxglove seeds

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...
  • Collect and sow seed from foxgloves
  • Take cuttings from pinks (Dianthus)
  • Prune philadelphus after flowering, removing stems carrying old flowers. Cut out very weak stems and some of the oldest wood
  • Feed dahlias with a liquid fertiliser and ensure plants are well watered. Tie to supports as stems develop
  • Remove rose suckers - excavate the soil so you can cut them back as far as possible
  • Spray roses regularly to prevent pests and diseases getting hold
  • Prune the long sideshoots on wisteria, cutting them all back to a length of about 20cm
  • Spray gladioli regularly with an insecticide, such as permethrin, to control thrips that can damage leaves and flower spikes
  • Lift, divide and replant healthy portions of flag iris rhizomes into freshly prepared soil. Reduce their leaves by half to prevent wind rock
  • Water sweet peas and give a liquid feed. Pick flowers or deadhead regularly

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