Early June In The Flower Garden

It's the second week in June and a transition time in the flower garden here in Scotland in zone 8b. The spring flowers are finishing and the summer annuals are not far away and being planted out. This week the new flowers in bloom include dutch iris, late winter sown ranunculus, gladioli byzantinus, foxgloves and astrantia. We still have allium purple rain, orlaya and hesperis to be enjoyed. All the flowers in my garden are grown with the dual purpose of enjoyment by our family and the local bees in the garden and also are great for cutting for the vase. Come and have a look round this week at what is flowering with me.
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[@susanconsidine2648]

Lovely.

[@cloudberryflowers-flowerfarm]

Thanks Susan x

[@EmsholehAlFerry]

Hai cantik 😊. Karya yang anda buat menyenangkan hati. TRIMAKASIH SDH BERBAGI pengalaman. Banyuwangi java Indonesia sport.

[@cloudberryflowers-flowerfarm]

Thank you so much for watching 😊 I am glad you enjoyed the video.

[@susanwondergem4014]

Actually have had good results spraying closely with water while squashing the aphids by hand. This intervention helps the plants enough that they can combat the pests with the help of the ladybugs.

[@cloudberryflowers-flowerfarm]

Thanks Susan, that is what I have been doing so far too. Interesting to read everyone’s tips for how to help combat them in the garden.

[@dolittlelane]

Beautiful! 😻🐦

[@cloudberryflowers-flowerfarm]

Thanks so much 😊

[@Beautydev23]

Beautiful flowers

[@cloudberryflowers-flowerfarm]

Thank you so much 😊

[@KristiB73]

Very beautiful!!!💙

[@cloudberryflowers-flowerfarm]

Thank you so much 😊

[@edmundhawan3886]

Hi Catherine Flowers looking beautiful as always. Grew Orlaya for the first time,survived over winter in the greenhouse but are slowly dying off one by one since they were planted out. More on the way so hopefully they will do better The few that are still alive are gorgeous Thanks again for your video Sharon Ireland

[@cloudberryflowers-flowerfarm]

Hi Sharon, thanks for watching this week. Sorry to hear the first batch of orlaya for you weren’t so good when they got outside. Fingers crossed for your next batch 🤞🌸 How is your weather this week? It is so unusually hot and dry here. It’s been a challenge to keep everything watered and the seedlings surviving. Hoping for some rain soon!

[@chambersjane50]

Beautiful flowers and so many already in flower for you

[@cloudberryflowers-flowerfarm]

Thank you, yes after a slow start with the cold spring things have really got going now. I love having flowers back in the garden.

[@chambersjane50]

@@cloudberryflowers-flowerfarm I'm fairly new to this .... received a small but rather lovely greenhouse for my 60th ladt year. I've perplexed and thought i eas doing everything wrong as seeds weren't germinating and those that did, didnt grow away .... then wham, warm sunny days AND it seems cruicially nights has made all the difference. A lesson learnt. Loving all your videos and your engaging style. Thank you

[@chambersjane50]

P.s. just received your The Flower Farmer Book an hour ago and already engrossed by it! 😀

[@chambersjane50]

*your recommendation

[@williamspekis7832]

I have used a few drops of mint essential oil in a cup of water. I put it in a spray bottle and spray it on the affected area. I had black aphids on my feverfew and it got rid of them.

[@cloudberryflowers-flowerfarm]

Thanks so much for watching and for the tip. I have not heard of that one so it’s great to get new ideas that have worked for you 👍

[@chrisa6682]

I remember Stefan Sobkowiak of The Permaculture Orchard, saying that aphids like plants that are in a higher nitrogen soil. Even if they are close together, one plant will have it and another not.

[@cloudberryflowers-flowerfarm]

That’s interesting to know, thanks.

[@marie9244]

I saw a hack Catherine where the person placed duct tape around his hand, sticky side facing outwards and went around and removed the aphids that way. They all stuck to the tape. If you have the time and your crop isn’t too large it’s an environmentally safe way to do it.

[@cloudberryflowers-flowerfarm]

Thanks for the tip. It a a good idea and definitely would work on smaller numbers of plants.

[@JillBretherton]

Your flowers are amazing & lush & healthy. It does show how climate specific they are though (or should I say temperature specific) as I’m in kent UK and about 2 weeks ahead. my Iris & alliums are well over now and ranunculus & sweet peas are all blown open and now a heatwave has set in, I suspect they’ll all peter out.

[@cloudberryflowers-flowerfarm]

Hello, thanks for watching. Yes there is a good few week difference between here and the South of England for flowering times. You must be very hot and dry in Kent at the moment. We are unusually dry and sunny here in Scotland and it has been a challenge keeping everything watered and healthy in the garden. I hope you have some sweet peas still going. My first one bloomed yesterday.

[@JillBretherton]

@@cloudberryflowers-flowerfarm yes very dry. Sweet peas & roses are amazing this year & still going strong. So a good sign yours will be too.

[@meggiwick7601]

Phantastic. Can you show us your wohle garden/landscape?

[@cloudberryflowers-flowerfarm]

Thank you. That’s a good idea to show more of the garden/landscape in future videos. I have a garden tour playlist on my channel and some of the videos there do show more of the garden.

[@jeannet9592]

Your plants are looking good! I have tried cerinthe for the first time this year and really like them, especially for the foliage.

[@cloudberryflowers-flowerfarm]

Thanks, it has been a challenge this week keeping them all looking healthy in our unusual heat wave! Cerinthe is a great one to grow, love it as it’s just so unusual.

[@Tea_and_thyme_2012]

Great video again. Your little floral arrangements are truly beautiful, do you have a video on how to make them. I’ve tried doing some for my own home and for friends but they never look great. How do you manage to show all the flowers when you’ve so many in a posy/bunch?

[@cloudberryflowers-flowerfarm]

Thanks so much. Tomorrow’s video is on making a bouquet. I also have a playlist on my channel that is about my flower arranging and it shows my jar arrangements and bouquets on there. I do use a lot of varieties of flowers in each one. I think because I tend to grow smaller headed varieties it works putting a lot together and you can see each individual one. I think if I grew much larger flowers to use then they would hide the smaller ones in arrangements.

[@newjerseygarden]

Hi Catherine, I've been waiting for years for someone else to comment about aphids on Yarrow. I grow so much Yarrow because I love it and some patches of Yarrow seem to escape the aphids but most of my Yarrow is getting pulled out this year because I have been disappointed with the aphids the last few years. This year I also have aphids on my brown eyed susans as well. I just learned that regular watering can help prevent aphid damage. I have tried neem oil and that did not work. I have tried insecticidal soap and it works if there are very few aphids but my Yarrow is completely covered with aphids.

[@cloudberryflowers-flowerfarm]

I completely understand as mine are covered this year too. It’s so frustrating as they are flowering well this year. Having tried what you have mentioned too with little success I was hoping that if I waited the natural predators would arrive in the garden and help get the aphids under control. I have actually opted for chelsea chopping them and pruning the stems back to encourage a second flush of flowers later in the season when hopefully the aphid damage will not be so great.

[@newjerseygarden]

@@cloudberryflowers-flowerfarm Yes, I'm going to chop mine next week. I did recently see some ladybugs eating the aphids and we've finally had some rain after a month of no rain so that seems to be helping but the blooms are past now, so it's too late to harvest any. Such a lovely flower without the aphids.

[@Flowersfromblackhouscroft]

What’s the name of the wee Gladioli’s

[@cloudberryflowers-flowerfarm]

Hello and thanks for watching. The smaller gladioli are called gladioli byzantinus. You can buy the bulbs for planting in the autumn for flowers next June.