My Garden Journal 2025 June

The sharing of my Garden Journal 2025 for June sees the beginning of the second half of the year. June is the first month that is recognised as Summer by the Met Office. Following on from the earlier months this year, June gave us atypical weather, hot dry periods followed by a few days of non-stop rain.

I started my June journal entries by noting that, “Flowering trees and shrubs add so much to the June garden, including several viburnum and three calycanthus.”

On the opposite page I feature another shrub, the rose and shared photos of those that have come into flower early in June. I wrote, “June 1st is the first day of summer! The weather so far in 2025 tells us that we have already had a little summer. Roses have had another burst of flowering early in June even though some have been in flower since late April.”

Below are just some of the roses that appeared in early June

Over the page and we move on from roses to a completely different type of plant, the succulent family. I carried on by saying, “Now that our succulents have been settling outside for a few weeks and appreciating both sunshine and rain they are looking very healthy. Their foliage colours are now richer and shiny.”

Next I noted that, “By mid-June even more roses have started flowering throughout the borders. Many will still be performing through to the end of the year!”

So we now have even more portraits of roses to enjoy.

Every month I look at some of the gardening tasks we set ourselves to get done. I don’t like calling them ‘tasks’ really because mostly we enjoy doing them but it does sound a little better than ‘jobs’. There must be a better word or phrase surely?

This is what I wrote to introduce the page of photos. “June is such a busy month in the garden with lots of deadheading to keep up with and another area to revamp. It is also the month when we replant the three welcome boxes on the end of our drive as shown in the top line of photos below.”

The set of photos below show us heads down getting busy in the garden.

Our garden wildlife features on the penultimate page of my June journal entries, where I wrote that, “Wildlife features strongly in the June garden, but all sorts of bees seem to be in short supply this year. Ladybirds have come to the fore after a slow start this summer and alongside their larvae they are voracious predators of aphids whatever colour they come in. Young blue tits join them seeking out especially green aphids off our rose flower buds and soft stems.”

The three photos below show a hoverfly, redcurrants for blackbirds and blackcaps and a 5-spot yellow ladybird.

Below we have a moth pupa and a Scarlet Tiger Moth.

The two photos below show a ladybird larva and caterpillars on silk threads.

For the last page on this month’s journal we look at a selection of our many hardy geranium. Here I noted that, “Now is the time when the garden shows off its perennials and one of the most colourful being the hardy geranium. We grow so many of them, from white to pink to blue and every hue in between. Some also have shades of purple, mixing pinks and reds.”