Catch up with Frances
It’s the height of summer. The days are at their longest, which means we have plenty of time to enjoy the garden, especially now that long-day response plants are being triggered into flowering. People often talk about a June flower gap – after the spring flowers have finished and before the late-summer blooms come into their own. As a rule, and if in doubt, pruning is usually best done immediately after flowering, so in the June gap there will be a few plants to cut back.