Flowers garden job checklist - week 32

30 - 5 August 2012

It's time to...

Deadhead pelargoniums and other summer bedding plants
Summer prune wisteria, cutting back whippy sideshoots to about 20cm
Water plants in pots and baskets
Take cuttings from shrubs choosing non-flowering shoots
Collect seed from flowers that you want to propagate including aquilegia, polemonium and foxgloves
Identify rose problems and pick off diseased leaves
Prune philadelphus, weigela and other early summer-flowering shrubs
Propagate lily bulbs by taking off a few outer scales and putting them in bags of compost and perlite, or by potting up bulbils formed on their stems
Cut back lady's mantle before it sets seed
Prune pleached trees