Keep check on your Lilies in containers or open ground for the red lily beetle. These can decimate plants over night. The only real cure is to catch and destroy this fast moving pest.

Aquilegia and Digitalis should have set their seed which could be shaken around the area to produce a self-sown display for another year.

Herbaceous Geraniums which have produced their first display, can be sheared off - flowers and foliage - and will send re-growth to flower again in a few weeks.

Aubretia and White Alyssum can be cut back hard to produce compact plants for the future.

Agapanthus and Crinums respond to a liquid feed as they produce their flower spikes but both prefer a sunny, dry position.

Arum Lilies (Zantedeschia) can be kept lush and flowering over a long period by feeding and copious watering.

Dwarf Alstroemeria make excellent container or front of the border plants and will flower until late autumn. As the flower spikes finish pull the dying spikes out from the base to promote new flowering shoots.

The same applies to taller flowering hybrids in the borders.