End of Season Blooms Pentas, Star flower – Pentas lanceolata Although the season has come and it is officially Autumn, our local weather says it is still summer. Many flowering warm season plants continue to bloom and highlight our gardens, such as Angel’s trumpet, pentas, begonia, roses & vinca to name a few. Cool-Season Flowers […]
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Preparing Roses for Fall Blooms Duchesse de Brabant Rose gardens need pruning, disease management and proper fertilization now for flowering in September and October. Late summer pruning of modern rose varieties such as hybrid tea, floribunda, grandiflora and shrub roses should be completed by early September. Pruning should be less severe than that done in
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Hot August Flowers Periwinkle For sunny beds or containers, choose periwinkle, melampodium, blue daze, purslane, portulaca, pentas, torenia, perennial verbena, salvias, sun-tolerant coleus, cleome, butterfly weed, hard hibiscus (mallow), salvia, lantana, zinnia, marigold, abelmoschus, globe amaranth, cosmos, balsam, celosia, scaevola, Mexican heather, plumbago, black-eyed susan, purple cone flower and vinca . For shady and partly-
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Pests and Diseases in the Garden Pentas Continue to monitor pests and diseases in the garden and treat for specific problems. Plants can be more susceptible to problems due to drought situations. Some pest damage in the garden is okay. Observe your plants and simply pick pests from your plants by hand. Horticulture oils and
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Storm Season Preparation Stokes aster Hurricane season is here again. We should examine the overall condition of our trees. Trees that have large dead branches or whole trees that are dead should be dealt with as soon as possible. Dead branches should be pruned off, and dead trees should be removed. Trees that are one-sided
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