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June is the driest month,when the sun is at its strongest. This does not necessarily mean it is the warmest month though, and it can be stormy.

• Flowers and bedding
  Summer bedding can generally be planted out safely now, although frosts (and snow) have been known.  The secret of keeping your bedding going all summer is to water, feed and dead head it regularly. This will keep it looking good until the first frosts. Trim the old flowers from your Aubretia and saxifrage and move your spring bulbs if you need to. Finish planting half hardy annuals, sow hardy annuals, wallflowers and sweet williams.

• Perennials
  Cut back early flowering plants to about 7cm form the soil.Pinch out the tips of Dahlias, stop Chrysanthemums, water beds if necessary and continue to tie into supports.

• Shrubs and climbers
  Prune out stems that have flowered on Deutzias and brooms. Dead head lilacs and laburnums. Remember that Laburnums are poisonous so dispose of the clippings somewhere that children aren't playing.

• Trees and hedges
  Trim Escallonia hedges, weed hedge bottoms and water newly planted trees.

• Roses
  Hoe regularly to keep weeds down and continue spraying with fungicide and insecticide. There are several reasons why it is important to spray regularly. Firstly most fungicides work be prevention so are only useful to stop black spot , rust or mildew starting. They will have less effect if it has already started. Secondly aphids and other sap sucking pests can have several generations in a short period of time, so if you kill one generation another may have hatched within a fortnight. So you will need to kill them too.

• Lawns
  Continue mowing. If the weather is very dry raise the blades a little so that the grass has more chance to keep green. Spike the lawn with a fork so that the rain can penetrate the earth.

• Vegetables
  Plant Brussells sprouts, winter cabbage and purple sprouting broccoli.Plant outdoor tomatoes and water salad crops, such as lettuce, well in dry weather.

• Fruit
  Thin fruits if the crop is heavy, this will allow the remaining fruit to develop to full size. Harvest strawberries. Continue to spray,water and mulch.Weed around plants as necessary. Protect soft fruit from birds. Start summer pruning vines.

• Pond
  Finish new planting. Oxygenate ponds in sultry weather by leaving a hose running into the pond. Remove algae and water weed with a stick or net.

• Greenhouse
  Water and damp down the floor and staging. This will help keep the greenhouse humid. Transfer as many plants as possible outside to reduce the need for watering.

• Indoors
  Move suitable plants outdoors, but not the tropical rainforest types like Monstera, Philodendron, Alocasia etc. Ideally they should go into sheltered, semi-shaded position.Keep a good eye out for slugs.