JUNE

1...Cut off all bulb foliage after is has browned down 2...Pinch annuals and bedding plants to encourage branching 3...Start and maintain a regular fruit tree spraying schedule 4...Start drying herbs and perennials for winter use 5...All dahlias should be planted by now 6...Set water lilies in pools or ponds 7.By cultivating, you aerate the soil and kill weeds at the same time 8.Start perennials and biennials from seed 9.Make 2nd planting of gladioluses and feed those already started 10.Keep lawn edges along beds and path well trimmed 11.Remove spent blooms from roses to keep beds tidy 12.Begin staking tall growing perennials 13.Check your fruit trees and begin thinning surplus fruit 14.Spent pansies can be pulled out and replaced with alyssum 15.Keep up your weekly spray program for roses

Did You Know ?

That there are three basic kinds of petunias: multifloras, grandifloras and doubles. Grandifloras have large flowers, from 3-4 inches wide and sometimes ruffled petals. Multifloras are smaller flowered, but the plants are literally covered with more flowers. Doubles are beautiful petunias with layers and layers of petals, almost resembling carnations.

To be watched for in June

American Cooper American Tortoise-shell Artic Satyr Baltimore Checker-spot Bronze Copper Dog's-head Eyed Brown Giant Swallowtail Goatweed Emperor Gray Emperor Great Purple Hair-streak Great Southern White Gulf Fritillary Harris' Checker-spot Large Orange Sulphur Least Skipper Little Sulphur Long-tailed Skipper Monarch Olympian Orange-tip Orange Sulphur Painted Beauty Pink-edged Sulphur Scudder's Blue Short-tailed Papilio Silvery Blue Silver Cresent Silver-spotted Skipper Southern Wood-nymph Spring Azure Striped Hair-streak Tailed Blue Variegated Fritillary Vicereine Wanderer White Hair-streak White Mountain Fritillary Zebra