Page 38 - Phonebox Magazine June 2006

A Month in the Garden
Linette Applegate
www.applegategardens.com
Plant of the Month Weigela ‘Bristol Ruby’
Some shrubs you will see in many gardens. In some peoples eyes this makes them common, but the reason is because they need little attention, do not suffer from many pests and diseases and usually have a good display of flowers.
This garden hybrid has clusters of lovely, ruby-red tubular flowers that come from very dark-red flower buds in late spring and early summer. This deciduous shrub is vigorous and has en erect habit and can reach 1.8m if left to its own devices but can be pruned lower if required. After flowering, cut back flowered shoots to strong buds if needed.
VIE-GEE-la or WY-GEE-la is the correct pronunciation for this shrub, but is commonly referred to as wy-gee-LEE-ah for some reason, maybe a TV presenter got it all wrong back in the sixties and it stuck! By the way, the strange name is taken from Christian Ehrenfried Weigel 1748-1831, a German professor of botany. d
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This is undeniably the time of year when gardeners raise their eyes above their own boundaries and look around for inspiration from gardens open to the public, of which there are plenty to choose from. A list of local gardens open for charity is available from libraries or tourist information centres, so go on, see what your neighbours are enjoying.
Remember to keep tying in stems of climbing and rambling plants, and prune early-summer flowering shrubs such as
brooms, philadelphus, and deutzias as they finish flowering. This will provide new stems for next year’s flowers.
If you have an area of naturalised spring bulbs and flowers, mow late in the month and leave the cut material in situ for a couple of days before tidying up. Allowing flower seeds to be released this way will increase the number of flowering plants in the grass. d
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