Dolley Madison Garden Club
  • Home
  • About Us
  • Historic Garden Week
  • Members
  • Conservation & Beautification
  • Horticulture
  • Floral Design
  • PHOTOGRAPHY
  • Garden History and Design
  • Community Projects
  • Garden Calendar
  • 2020 Virtual Lily Show
  • DMGC Shoppe
Garden Calendar
June 
Plant
  • ​​Annuals  ​​
  • ​Sow seeds of quick growing annuals (cosmos, marigolds, zinnias)
Light Pruning and Chores
  • Prune climbing roses after they bloom (but repeat climbing bloomers are pruned in the fall)
  • Continue to prune Spring flowering shrubs after they finish blooming
  • Lilacs - watch for lilac borer and remove any infested branches
  • Azaleas - this is about the last month to prune
  • Prune only for a good reason - to remove elongated growth, to remove broken branches, to remove dead and diseased wood and to encourage fullness and flowering​
  • Deadhead blooming plants and don't forget to deadhead peonies
  • Cut back and layer perennials like phlox, asters (when 24" high) and monarda to control height​
Fertilize and Mulch
  • Mulching beds improves soil texture and helps the bed retain moisture during dry spells and insulates during cold spells
  • Applying 3 to 4 inches of mulch helps keep weed growth down
  • Pine needles, straw and ground leaves make excellent mulch​
  • Watering - plants need about 1" of water per week provided by nature or by you
Chores
  • Divide daffodils if they are large and have had only a few blooms or if its been 4 years since you last divided them
  • Daylilies can be moved safely now and water well to establish them
  • Divide woodland phlox (Phlox divaricata)
  • Divide spring and early summer flowering perennials after the blooms fade
  • Cover cherry trees and blueberry bushed to prevent birds from eating them
  • Clean up and weed garden beds
  • Stake or provide support for tall growing perennials or ones that tend to flop
  • Keep tools sharp and clean after use​
  • Water new plants to help them become established ​
Tips: 
  • Rhododendron - to improve blooms for next year, remove old blooms 2 weeks after the flowers fade, carefully and by hand and try not to injure new leaf shoots under the leaves
  • Roses - when cutting blossoms, make a cut above a 5 leaflet leaf because the new stem is more likely to bear flowers than a stem from a 3 leaflet leaf
  • Remember to keep your garden journal. Take photographs of your garden all year long.
  • Adding one or two young willow  branches to a container for rooting cuttings can speed the rooting process. Willow wood contains a natural hormone that speeds the process.
  • A ripe apple placed in a closed container with green tomatoes will encourage the tomatoes to turn red.  
  • Clean your tools when you finish with one plant and before you move to the next.  
  • Wear gloves for all of your gardening and yard chores;  protect your skin from sun, dirt, bugs, poison ivy, poison oak, poison sumac, and other plant toxins.  ​
**************************************************************************************************************************************************************************
Thanks to Suzanne Aiello who compiled these tips for the Dolley Madison Garden Club.
Picture
Email: dmgc.pr.comm@gmail.com
Website: www.dmgcvirginia.org
Our Club Facebook page: ​@DolleyMadisonGardenClub
Our Historic Garden Week Facebook page: 
@HGWOofVA
Follow us on Instagram @historicgardenweekorangeva

© Dolley Madison Garden Club
All photos/images/text and
contents are copyrighted . 
All Rights Reserved

​P.O. Box 1017
Orange, VA  22960
  • Home
  • About Us
  • Historic Garden Week
  • Members
  • Conservation & Beautification
  • Horticulture
  • Floral Design
  • PHOTOGRAPHY
  • Garden History and Design
  • Community Projects
  • Garden Calendar
  • 2020 Virtual Lily Show
  • DMGC Shoppe