Can anyone recommend some plants that I could plant after I come back in June and still hope to get a nice show of flowers and some veggies before the winter arrives?

Thanks!
Prabha

However, since that isn't fesable, how are you traveling? If it's by car, you could possibly start some seedlings about 4 weeks or so before you go, and take them with you, that way they would be ready to plant by the time you got back. (for veggies, you would have to make sure that they would have enough time to ripen before your first frost.)

You can also sometimes find plants already growing (vegitables and flowers) at nursurys and places like Home Depot and Lowes. In fact, the Lowes near me already has plants lioke broccoli and cauliflower ready to be planted. You could ask around and find out what they plan to have avalable in mid june. They will be more expensive that way of course, but if the alternative is having nothing, I personally would go ahead and pay the extra lol.

Barring that, I really don't know. (I'm fairly new at this too!) You might ask in the vegitable forum about fast-growing veggies.