June Garden Tour 2020 - From My Previous Home (Zone 6b) - Bricks ’n Blooms with Stacy Ling

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A look back at my June 2020 garden at our previous home, with blooms, growth, and seasonal highlights in Zone 6B.

Hi! I’m Stacy Ling, a trained Master Gardener who grows in hardiness zone 6b here in New Jersey. I gardened in my previous home for about 23 years before moving to my 1850 farmhouse. I love keeping these older seasonal tours as part of my gardening journey. They show how my gardens evolved year after year and give you a real-life look at early summer in a true Zone 6B landscape. The following is a tour of my garden as it was slow-rolling from spring to summer.

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June Garden Tour (2020)

Since I started blogging and joining Instagram, I’ve met some pretty cool gardeners. We all live in different parts of the United States and Canada, so each of our gardens are totally different.

I’ve learned so much from them and am joining one of my faves, Kim, who gardens in the Pacific Northwest, to bring you a virtual garden tour.

There is much to be learned walking around the garden and I love touring other gardener’s borders.

So follow along with her tour at the end of this post to see her garden – it is amazing!

As you walk up the pathway from the driveway, there is an everblooming perennial garden that greets friends, family and visitors.

Right now, the catmint, salvia, aliums, dahlias, pansies, bearded irises, calibroca, zinnias, and euphorbia are all in bloom.

While working in this garden, I’ve seen lots of hummingbirds enjoy the catmint.

I have quite a few plants so they stop by often to grab some nectar.

One of which are these pretty dahlias that I picked up at the nursery recently.

I saw them and had to have them!

As this garden fills in, I’m realizing how much the coneflowers took over this bed.

I’m going to leave them for now, but will dig and divide them in fall so I can get more variety in this garden.

The well and cutting garden is doing well.

I added a cutting garden to the well garden a few months ago so I had more room to add cutting flowers for arrangements.

The new plants I added are doing really well!

Blooming in this garden now are pincushion flower, lupines, dianthus, bearded irises, calibrocas, and zinnias.

The peonies are waiting in the wings to start flowering.

In the meantime, the foliage of smoketree and evergreens add to the visual interest in this bed.

The mailbox garden is filled with a mix of annuals and perennials.

Jackmanii Clematis is climbing up and around the mailbox.

It also houses daylillies, sedum autumn joy, calibrocas, euphorbia and marigolds.

Spring in the Backyard

As we head into the backyard, I am really loving the garden shed makeover.

The neutral paint colors allow the garden to be the main focus and do not distract the eye from the blooms.

In this garden, the bearded irises, siberian iris, double flowering impatiens, zinnias, marigolds and calibrocas are all blooming.

The vegetable garden sits in front of the garden shed and is currently growing spinach, celery, sweet peas, a few tomato varieties, peppers, cucumbers and zucchini as well as basil, cilantro, parsley, sage, thyme and rosemary.