June is here and with it brings the sun and fun in the garden! In this month’s Dig It, Peter Brown and Chris Day discuss the latest gardening news stories, events, and those all-important gardening tasks, plus celebrating DIG IT’s inclusion into the Rephonic top 15 gardening podcasts!

What’s On

3 - 9th June British Flowers Week celebrating the variety and skills of the nation’s flower growers.

8th June: Royal Windsor Flower Show in Windsor Great Park, Windsor.

8 - 9th June: London Open Gardens event.

13 - 16th June: BBC Gardeners' World Live at the NEC in Birmingham.

21st - 23rd June; Blenheim Palace Flower Show, Oxfordshire.

People, gardens, products and plants mentioned. Tom Stuart Smith, Val Bourne, Jonathan Sheppard - Cosmos National Collection and Dame Judi Dench plants the Sycamore gap seedling. Water Aid Garden, Octavia Hill Community Garden with the National Trust. The RHS No Adults Allowed Garden, Malvern Garden Houseplant Studios, Hanley Open Side Building from Malvern, and Taylors Bulbs win their 31st Gold medal.

Miracle Gro, Tomorite Tomato Feed, Enviromesh or garlic spray to deter carrot fly. Slug copper tape, Slug Gone, beer traps and coffee grounds.

Euonymus Green Spire and Euonymus Jean Hugues (good box alternative). Rose ‘Emma Bridgewater’ from David Austin and the ‘With Courage’ from Peter Beales.

Make direct sowings of Peas, Beans, Courgettes, Sweetcorn, Lettuce, Carrot, Spring Onions, Radish and flowers Nasturtiums, cornflowers, and calendulas.

News

Winner of the RHS Plant of the Year Prunus ‘Starlight’. Runner up: Cosmos ‘Cherry Chocolate’.

Bromeliads cultivated at Walton Hall in Cheshire.

Growing plants should be on the curriculum.

Kew ‘Carbon’ Garden created.

Scientists eavesdrop the sounds from the soil.

Long grass is benefiting butterflies says charity.

RHS Garden Wisley opens Oakwood Summerhouse to pay homage to Ellen Willmott.

National Trust revamps some gardens by future proofing with more resilient planting.

Aviva issues flood risk warning as residents turn to artificial lawns.

Jekka McVicar recipient of the Prince Edward Award.

Oudolf landscape opens at Wisley.

Lack of collective of nouns of trees.

Auckland gardens regeneration in County Durham.

Roses at risk from lack of genetic diversity.

A UK first Tulbaghia National Collection at Eastwood Park Prison.

25 years of research creates UK first for oak seeds.

King Charles III to continue as Patron of the National Garden Scheme, and is the new patron of the RHS.

Top 5 bedding plants 1 Geranium Zonal Mixed 9-pack, 2 Geranium Zonal, 13cm, 3 Hedera (ivy) Mixed, 9cm, 4 Geranium Ivy Leaf Mixed and at 5 Petunia Mixed carry pack.

In our next podcast we chat with Jessica Naish from Buckingham Flower Farm about the growing cut flowers.

Our thanks to Chiltern Music Therapy for supplying the music.

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