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Flowers checklist

Flowers checklist

14 - 20 July 2008

Picking lily bulbils

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...
  • Pick bulbils from lily stems and pot them up to raise new plants
  • Give shrubs and perennial plants a liquid feed
  • Cut down delphiniums once flower spikes fade
  • Take cuttings from non-flowering shoots on hydrangeas
  • Pick sweet peas regularly and remove any seed heads to keep them flowering
  • Shorten shoots on choisya to encourage a second flush of flowers
  • Feed roses to keep them flowering strongly
  • Pinch out the shoot tips on fuchsias and bedding plants for bushier growth
  • Save seed from foxgloves to sow right away in small pots of compost
  • Be vigilant for signs of lily beetle, vine weevil, Solomon's seal sawfly and other problem pests

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