Flower Gardener’s Diary When it begins getting cold and dreary outdoors, it can be tempting to cover the garden with a layer of mulch and walk away until spring. However if you want to inject some colour into your garden (and it is not covered in snow!), start with flowers! Garden Tips for June Brightly coloured polyanthus, primula, pansies and violas can be planted now by the barrow load. If you prefer to start with seeds: sow poppies, sweetpeas, wildflowers, calendula, violas and pansies. Collect seeds from poppies, wild flowers and other flowering annuals to grow your own free flowers in spring. Deadhead or pinch out old flowers of snapdragons, stocks, polys and pansies to encourage a new flush of flowers.   Read on for the full flower gardening diary