Lawns:

New and established lawns.

• Water lots in dry weather.
• Aerate surface of lawn
• Apply fungicide to control fusarium, dollar spot and corticium.

Roses

• Cut blooms for decorating your home
• Take off dead heads as they appear
• After the first set of blooms remember to feed roses with fertiliser and hoe it in to the soil
• Spray for Greenfly, Blackspot, Mildew and Rust

Hardy Herbaceous Plants:

• Cut back early flowering plants and remove deadheads where there are still flowers
• Remove dead flowers from Paeonies
• Cut Lupens and Delphiniums to ground level in mild districts to encourage another display.
• Apply fertiliser around Michael Mas Daisies lacking in vigour.
• Dust those plants which are prone to mildew with flowers of sulphur.
• Cut off and burn leaves of Campanula persicifolia infected with rust fungus.
• Start to plan and design where you would like your new beds for the Autumn. Tip: choose an open space away from fences and trees. Begin preparing beds for Autumn planting.

Dahlias

• Tie young stems to their stakes.
• Feed plants which are slow to grow onca fortnight
• Take off buds off selected stems to obtain longer stems and better flowers.
• Remove faded flowers.

Chrysanthemums

• Reduce the number of shoots per plants to 5, except on Pom Pons and spray varieties.
• Water plants well and tie and support any plants that need help once a week.
• Apply a balanced fertiliser around the middle of July. Take off buds of early flowering varieties if they show buds.
• Spray regularly to control pests.
• Reduce lage exhibition varieties to 3 stems.
• uderglass dig and rake greenhouse borders to receive mid and late season varieties propagated last month.

Gladioli

• Stake plants individually
• Control gladiolus thrips with malathion or BHC

Irises

• Dig up and divid dwarf varieties, intermediate and bearded irises that have been undisturbed for three years.
• Select the best single rhizomes for re-planting in newly enriched soil. Leave the tops of the rhizomes above the soil
• Cut off the top halves of the leaves.
• Plant Irises obtained from garden centres or nurseries.
• Water newly planted rhizomes in dry weather and pull off dead leaves.
• order Bulbos irises for Autumn planting.
• Dress summer flowering Dutch Irises wuth notro chalk.
• Lift bulbos irises when their leaves die down if they need moving. Dry them off and divide them for replanting.

Lilies

• Take off any dead flowerheads unless you would like to save the seeds.
• Spray with Bordeaux mixture and with systemic insecticide.
• Keep beds weeded and watered.
• Under glass: Control aphids and water adequately.

Carnations and Pinks

• Continue disbudding border carnations.
• Take actions against pest and diseases.
• Order and border carnations and pinks for Autumn planting.
• Remove old flower stem from pinks
• Water them if dry and give them a high potash fertiliser.
• Propagate border carnations by layering.
• After 6 week sever each layer from it's parent plant. 3 or 4 weeks after this lift them and pot or plant out separately.
• under glass: Renew shading on glass and damp down in hot weather. Continue to give second stopping to provide winter flowers. Cut blooms and disbud flower stems. Continue to take cuttings of pinks and harden off routed cuttings. Take action against pests and diseases.

Sweet Peas

• A liquid feed may be required every 12 days
• Spray monthly with a systemic insecticide against sap-sucking insects.
• Continue pinching out tendrils and side shoots from cordons. Layer cordon-grown plants when they reach 5ft tall

Flowers from seed.

• Take off old flower heads from annuals to keep them flowering.
• Water well in dryer weather.
• Support taller growing annuals.
• Start to sow wildflowers and sweet williams in drills in their flowering positions.
• Spray monthly with a systemic insecticide. Hoe regularly.
• Arrange seedlings of hardy biennials in a nursery bed.

Bulbs

• Lift and store tulips and daffodils.
• Remove from storage and burn any bulbs that are infected with eelworms and bulb fly grubs.
• Start to plant Autumn flowering bulbs, especially Amaryllis belladonna. PlantNerine bowdenii outdoors; also autumn crocus, Sternbergia lutea and colchicum.
• Prepare ground for planting new bulbs which will be used for cut flowers in the Spring, by digging and removing weeds and applying a good fertiliser, particularly potash.

Alpines:

• Continuing weeding and hoeing.
• Trim dead flowers from aubrietas and saxifrages to prevent seeding.
• Clip other plants to keep them tidy.
• In showery weather, transplant recently planted alpines which have been wrongly sited.
• Water plants in dry weather, preferably using a fine mist in the evening.

Water Plants and pools

• Finish planting aquatics this month for a display in their first season.
• In sultry weather keep the water oxygenated by occasionally adding fresh water from a hose and spray.
• Check for aphids, deal with immediately (being careful how chemicals are used when fish are present.)
• Control Chironomas midge, which eats the leaves of water lilies and aponogeton.
• Remove algae before large masses for.
• Reduce surface plants to allow light to penetrate the underwater plants. Prick out seedlings of February sown primulas in seed boxes, ready for planting in September.
• Divide clumps of Orontium aquaticum and re-plant.

Greenhouses and Frames

• Water the greenhouse and damp down to maintain a humid atmosphere.
• Transfer as many plants to coldframes to avoid watering. Plunge plants which have finished flowering in the garden
• Sow cineraria seeds.
• Pot on strptocarpus plants and make a further sowing.
• Transfer cyclamen sown last August to 5in. pots. Give them a liquid feed every ten days and control aphids with a systemic insecticide. Pot polyanthu in 3 in. pots for greenhouse decoration next winter and stand in shade outdoors.
• Move Campanula pyrmidalis seedlings into 5in pots.
• Propagate saintpaulias and Begonia rex from leaf cuttings.
• Spray solanum capsicastrum plants daily in warm weather to help set fruits.
• Pinch out all but four side shoots of melons planted last month, pollinate flowers and shade glass in hot weather.
• Cease giving artificial heat: clean out the boiler, or store the oil heater in a dry shed.
• Maintain a humid atmosphere for cucumbers by regular spraying. If main stems of tomatoes are becoming thin, give extra nitrogen,
• Give some ventilation at night especially

Trees and Shrubs

• Keep an eye on hedges for aphids, whitefly and other pests. If found use appropriate controls.
• Propagation. Layer passiflora and wisteria shoots in sandy loam. Root cuttings of Buddleia alternfolia and callicarpa in a cold frame. Root cuttings of Camellia japonica and Elaeagnus pungens in pots of sandy soil in propagating frame at 13-16C (55-61F). Insert heel cuttings of hibiscus and Jasminum officinale in pots of sandy soil in a cold frame.
• Pruning. Prune deciduous shrubs such as jasmine and philadelphus after flowering by removing spent flowers and wek shoots.

Rhododendrons and Azleas

• Spray against japanese lace-wing fly and bud blast. Look for leaf hopper and control with DDT. Remove any suckers found of grafted plants.

Hedges

• Trim quickthorn hedges. Hoe and weed hedge bottoms. Control aphids and whitefly on hedges.

Heathers

• Remove weeds and renew peat mulch where necessary

Fruit

• Pick soft fruits.
• Summer prune trees grown in restricted form
• Support heavily cropping branches of apples, pears and plums
• Spray apples, pears, blackberries, loganberries, plums and damsons
• Complete thinning apple and pear fruits.
• Check that ties on trained trees are not too tight.
• Train in new blackberry and loganberry shoots. Check weeds around trees and bushes growing in cultivated soil.
• Pick blackcurrant fruit and prune bushes.
• Destroy bushes infected with reversion virus.
• Tie in replacement shoots on peaches and nectarines.
• Protect peaches against birds, wasps and earwigs,
• Support heavily laden plum branches.
• Prune trees after picking
• Pick raspberries, cut down old canes and remove weak new shoots.
• Tie in new shoots and control weeds.
• Tidy up strawberry beds and discard plants which have given three crops.
• Continue summer pruning of vines.

Vegetables

• Complete leek planting.
• In the south of England, sow swedes or hardy turnips
• Complet planting late Brussel sprouts, winter cabbages, sprouting and spring broccoli.
• Sow spinach beet
• Pinch out side shoots from tomatoes, except on bush varieties, which should be strawed to keep fruits clean, Make late sowings of round seeded peas and globe beetroot.
• Continue watering shallow rooted crops in dry weather.
• Start to lift and store onions.
• Underglass Cut cucumbers as they swell
• Less common vegetables. Lift and dry off shallots as their tops yellow, separate the bulb clusters, remove the loose skins and store in bags in a dry, cool shed or room.
• Sow winter radishes and thin to 6 in. apart.

Herbs

• Sow chevril, dil and parsley
• Harvest herbs just before they come into full bloom.
• Dry herbs in an airing cupboard
• Cut lavendar for drying and storing.

Patios and town gardens

• Water container-grown plantsat least once a day. If not top dress with damp peat.
• Remove dead flowers and discard plants past their best.

House Plants

• Continue watering and feeding at the summer rate. Provide as much humidity as possible for all plants on hot days by standing them near pans of water.

General Tasks

• Between now and the autumn carry out such constructional tasks as paving, wall building and concreting. Repair and paint greenhouses and frames.
• Remove deadheads from flowers weekly.
• Before going on vacation remember to cut the lawn, hoe all around, check plant ties and leave the hose ready for a friend, neighbour or housesitter to water for you.
• Pick sweet peas and vegetables.