June is the month for Roses and in the Walled garden Monty tells us to watch out for balling due to the exceptionally wet weather lately, and shows us a balled moss rose. Monty also dead-heads Rosa 'Cardinal de Richelieu'.
In the Jewel Garden Monty stops to pause and updates on the terracotta pots he recently planted up with dahlia, cosmos and nasturtium. He then starts clearing space to replace plants like wallflowers that are past their best with plants that Monty has grown from seeds, cuttings and division which will give colour right through to autumn. Monty positions and then plants up Tithonia rotundifolia 'Torch', Mexican sunflower; Cosmos bipinnatus 'Dazzler' and Salvia guaranitica.
At Longmeadow, Monty Don reveals how the garden has changed over the last four weeks. There has been a lot of rain but the garden hasn't suffered that much. He takes a look at the dahlias. He admits that the grass borders are giving him a lot of pleasure at the moment.
In the Jewel Garden Monty feeds his containers and explains that if you want to encourage flowering you need a feed with a fertilizer that's high in potassium or potash, and if you want to produce more leaves, use one that's rich in nitrogen. Alternatively make your own, one made with comfrey is ...
Longmeadow is in full bloom, but Monty Don is keen to remind us that there is still time to sow some late vegetables, even if you are really short of space.
