Welcome to Mary and Gary's Garden Diary for June
June, what can you say about June? Without Mary's diligent
attention I must cut back what flowers to host. Seems a cool wet Spring
will be the norm. Despite, the Clematis, Heuchera, Weigela, Sedum, &
Salvia love early summer weather.
I'm removing a lot of ornamentals and replacing with kitchen garden
plants. I am trying to keep all of my drought
tolerant plants (mostly grasses). Last summer, I cut down my
beautiful wisteria along with 10-trees. In their place
I planted 5-dwarf fruit trees.
My zone 5-rated fruit trees had broken my heart too many times. New additions include, 6-blueberry (3 types), 2-goji berry, 2-honey berry bushes. My 5-new fruit trees are Goldcot Apricot, 2-Asian pears, a cherry and a Reliant peach. I planted the trees last spring and the Peach tree has 6 or 7 peaches on it... reluctantly I must pluck them off.
The garden had gotten too shady and replacing 10-trees with 5 should help find a happy medium.
This spring, despite the cold and rain, the tulips were up and brilliant throughout
May. Picking off projects in the garden one at a time. All of the peppers
and tomatoes are in. Michael and I are fixing the drip irrigation
zone every couple of days.
I am hoping to install 1-zone just for the potted plants. The pictures don't relate to the diary yet but
as the month progresses, they will get better. A huge thanks goes out to Duane and Barb who took a
day-off just to come up and worked almost the whole day cleaning up around
all the raised beds fixing all my tools that were unusable.
