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June in the Garden

9 fabulous edibles for kitchen garden

By Carol Pope Filed Under: Containers, Food, June in the Garden

Carol Pope's compact but bountiful kitchen container garden. (All photos by Carol Pope)

From the cluster of terracotta pots in her container kitchen garden, Carol Pope picks herbs, strawberries, blueberries, currants, and even figs and apples.

Rose care in moist conditions

By Judith Adam Filed Under: June in the Garden, Making a Garden

Rose-Tour-de-Malakoff

Constantly moist soil is wonderful for root growth (just so long as there is adequate drainage). Here are tips for rose care in moist conditions.

How to grow lupines

By Kat Fox Filed Under: Ground to Cover, June in the Garden

Lupines like acidic soil and lots of drainage, so heavy clay soil just won’t do. These lupines are happily growing in hard-packed gravel.

How to grow lupines. These plants are tall, colourful perennials.

How to prune Japanese tree peonies

By Judith Adam Filed Under: June in the Garden, Making a Garden, Plants

Japanese tree peony (Garden Making photo)

Pruning is a good way to rejuvenate tree peonies. It’s better to prune tree peonies in early spring, when their pink buds are prominent, but not yet open.

Favourite nicotiana species

By Judith Adam Filed Under: June in the Garden, Making a Garden, Plants

Nicotiana alata (Photo from Wikimedia Commons)

The familiar nicotiana species we grow as summer annuals are closely related, bearing similar star-shaped flowers and slightly sticky foliage.

Blue salvias highlight other colours in garden

By Judith Adam Filed Under: June in the Garden, Making a Garden

‘Caradonna’ salvia (Photo by Brendan Adam-Zwelling)

Blue flowers such as blue salvias are useful for accenting other colours in the garden. Try to have some in bloom from summer through fall.

Blushing mandevilla vine

By Judith Adam Filed Under: June in the Garden, Making a Garden

Rio Deep Red mandevilla. (Photo by Brendan Zwelling)

Judith Adam writes about beautiful Rio Deep Red mandevilla vine and how to care for them.

‘Strawberry Fields’ deutzia

By Judith Adam Filed Under: June in the Garden, Making a Garden

'Strawberry Fields' deutzia and Geranium phaeum. (Photo by Brendan Zwelling)

The familiar spring-blooming slender deutzia, sometimes known as Japanese snow flower, is an exuberant bloomer in full sun to part shade.

Container gardening: How to design and plant a container

By Garden Making Filed Under: Containers, June in the Garden

Garden Making Editor-in-Chief Beckie Fox

How-to container gardening video. Beckie Fox gives container garden ideas and tips on how to design and plant a container garden. Choose colours and plants.

Rain-proof peonies

By Judith Adam Filed Under: June in the Garden, Making a Garden

‘Coral and Gold’ peony. Photo courtesy of Blossom Hill Nursery.

This was the week rain smashed the pale pink ‘Sarah Bernhardt’ peonies, which happens every year in early June. You just know there will be a downpour that will splatter the big double blooms across the lawn.

Time for lawn attention, again

By Judith Adam Filed Under: June in the Garden, Making a Garden

Herbicides with iron work on lawn weeds. Photo by Heather Hayden

There should be a few weeks in June when soil moisture and moderate temperatures favour fertilizing the lawn and dealing with weeds.

Tree peonies and their kin

By Judith Adam Filed Under: June in the Garden, Making a Garden

Mauve tree peony (Photo by Brendan Zwelling)

The flowers of tree peonies are startling huge and beautiful (and some are deeply scented), and their foliage remains attractive all season.

Provide home for mason bees in your garden

By Karen York Filed Under: June in the Garden, Tips for gardeners

Solitary bees, especially mason bees (Osmia lignaria), are buzzing to the rescue. These native bees are easy to attract.

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