We’ve selected a rose that has been a favourite for three generations, but also ten top perennials that make June zing.
Our Whitebeam Allee sums up June; a froth of vivid blues, reds and pinks.
If you’re ever going to fall in love with roses, June is the month to do it.
We fell for climbers, which cloak our walls, railings and arches but we also have shrub roses and ramblers.
This is a glorious month for gardens, but there’s one we always visit in June. Many have great roses but this one also has an astonishing eye for detail
It’s hard to find any part of the garden that isn’t flowering its heart out in June. The colours are primary blues, flashing scarlets, magenta and eye-popping pinks. This month is the hardest for us to select our Top Garden Room; every part of the garden is shouting, ‘Me…me…me’. Also, our owls fledged on June 1.
Top June plants
Rosa Albertine
Maybe not the best rose over a year but for an early June hit Albertine is our pick. Neat Strawberry red buds open into flamingo pink blooms fading to salmon at the edges. Check out our Top 10 Roses
Top plants – when they flower – what they bring to the garden
| Knautia Macedonica | May-Aug | Continuous magenta madness |
| Double Peony | June | Lush frilliness |
| Mexican Salvia | May-Sept | Eye-searing colour |
| Crambe Cordifolia | June | Clouds of tiny white stars |
| Potentilla Flamenco | June | A study in scarlet |
| Geranium Magnificum | May-July | A cobalt flock held high |
| Foxgloves | June | Stately tapering spires of trumpets |
| Variegated Sisyrinchium | May-Aug | Sword stabs of pale yellow |
| Jacobs Ladder | June-July | White bells atop frothy foliage |
| Iris Gerard Darby | June | Indigo serpents |
And more...
| Delphinium |
| Oriental Poppy |
| Geum Borisii |
| Yellow Scabious |
| Cistus |
| Rock Roses |
| Iris Chrysographes |
| Dianthus Firewitch |
| Day Lilies |
| Anenome Rivularis |
| Phlomis Russeliana |
| Phuopsis Stylosa |
| Smoke bush |
| Maltese Cross |
| Stachys Macrantha |
Whitebeam Allee
In June, the Whitebeam Allee bubbles into a foam of blues shot through the scarlets and shocking pinks. The catmint Six Hills Giant rings the inside of the Allee, sprawling out onto the gravel and providing the blue harmony through which the rest of the colours chime.
Five four metre tall globes of chalky-green Whitebeam (Sorbus Aria Lutescens) provide a second tier above it all.
Garden Rooms in June
David Austin Roses
The rose is part of our history; tied to royal dynasties and symbolic of historic wars. David Austin reinvented English roses and did more than anyone to inspire the move away from the sterile rose garden. His garden is the place to go in June if you want to immerse yourself in the scent and sight of roses.
Pictured one of the Garden Rooms at David Austin Roses
Wild spectacle: Ox-eye Daisy
Cloaking our verges from May onwards, Ox-eye Daisies don’t need much encouragement to start dancing.
