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In the Garden

Fertilize trees and blooming shrubs once their flowers have faded.  Give them a light prune to remove spent blooms to keep them tight.

  • Give the lawn one last feed before summer.

  • Water your plants deeply and as infrequently as you can to encourage deeper roots in preparation for hotter weather and potential water rationing in the summer months.

  • Potted plants and hanging baskets will need more water as the temperatures warm up.  It will be important to supplement with a fertilizer as the increased watering's will deplete the nutrients.

  • Get your annual bedding plants in the ground so the roots can become established before the heat arrives.

  • Summer heat loving annuals to plant:  zinnia, cosmos, sunflower, four o'clocks, celosia, penta, periwinkle, gomphrena, portulaca, scaevola, coleus, marigolds, dusty miller and angelonia.

  • Heat loving garden plants:  sweet potato slips, malabar spinach, okra, cantaloupe, pumpkin, summer and winter squash, watermelon and southern peas.

  • Magnolia trees typically drop their  older leaves in May.  The leaves turning yellow before dropping to the ground.

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Salvia farinacea 'Blue Lagoon'

Spikes of buds open to violet-blue blooms throughout summer. The compact habit makes a fantastic container feature for a porch or p

SIZE: Moderate growing; reaches 15 to 24 in. tall, 12 to 22 in. wide.

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