By June you've accomplished a lot, be sure and take a break for inspiration! Visit your local botanical garden to see the roses and perennials in bloom.  

• Prune early flowering shrubs such as lilacs and forsythia after blooms have faded.   
• Water trees and shrubs only as needed and remember to adhere to local water restrictions and guidelines.   
• Visit a Colorado Nursery & Greenhouse Assoc. member for assistance with selections. Find a CNGA retail location near you.  
• Flowers, Ground Covers, Perennials, and Ornamental Grasses  
• Remove foliage from spring-blooming bulbs after leaves have completely died back.  
• Continue deadheading and weeding as needed. Deadhead or pinch back annual flowers to keep them bushy and full of blooms.  

• Adjust your sprinkler so that established bluegrass lawns receive about 1 �" of precipitation a week. Avoid water waste by monitoring how much water your sprinkler puts out and by setting your sprinkler to run in a way that avoids runoff away from the lawn.  
• Raise your mowing height on cool season turf lawns (like bluegrass) to 3" and continue to mow as needed removing only 1/3 of the blade at each mowing.  
• If you have a Buffalo grass or other warm season turf lawn, fertilize in late May or early June, right after the grass starts to green. Fertilize at a rate of � to 1 lb of nitrogen per 1,000 square feet. Un-irrigated Buffalo grass lawns may only require fertilization every other year if the clippings are returned to the lawn.   

• It's a good idea to set out heat loving veggies like tomatoes, squash, pumpkins, cucumbers, and peppers when night temperatures are consistently above 50 degrees.  
• Remember to weed regularly.