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For seasoned gardeners, the month of June can be a bit tricky. Usually by now the spring flowers and crops are on their way out while the summer harvest and blooms have yet to mature. This time is known as the ‘June gap’. But there’s plenty of choice when it comes to filling that gap to prevent your garden looking bare at the start of summer. 


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00:00so it's now early june and some of the biennials we planted last year are now coming into bloom
00:06so i'll just take you up close to show you a few of them here's ones in pots these are
00:12canterbury bells and there's different colors of them you can see they're a white dark blue
00:18and a kind of lilac blue color these are beautiful plants you can see how tall they are here
00:24great for cut flowers last for about two weeks in a vase and then we have these poppies that we
00:32sowed last year as well and some babies breath in amongst them it works really well down here
00:39we have the alyssum planted last year too and we have some dahlias and panties and petunias up in
00:49the pots here and these are tagetes and these are like a branching a bushy kind of marigold
01:02and more of the white canterbury bells there and some of the aquilegia they're perennial
01:10the sweet pea starting to bloom
01:14more poppies there some pink and red oriental poppies you can see the bees
01:17absolutely love these flowers and some baby's breath
01:24more poppies and bunny grass some marigolds in here as well
01:32and then some schizanthus more canterbury bells and more sweet pea
01:40more schizanthus and then if i just take you around the back
01:43this is the perennial bed it's starting to come along and fall out now
01:50you're starting to see oh there's bugs on the the bolly buttons
01:55the rain hasn't done too much damage
01:59garden badly needs the grass needs cut but um
02:02it's just been too wet you can see the cornflowers there coming along and here's all the sweet
02:10william and all our biennial that was planted out last year over wanters fine and like the canterbury
02:17bells they survive the frost fine as well then there's a whole pile of canterbury bells starting
02:21to open or about to open and there should be quite a sea of blue here very soon
02:29and then up the back you can see another biennial and that is the silver pennies and the seat heads are now forming on them
02:40and that's the latest
02:41the biennials are a great idea for filling that gap that June gap that um
02:51the spring flowers have gone over and then you're waiting for the summer flowers to open so the
02:55biennials really do make a difference in terms of providing color all summer through

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