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Beautiful New Plants Arriving Daily
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.
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Give the lawn one last feed before summer.
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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.
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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.
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Get your annual bedding plants in the ground so the roots can become established before the heat arrives.
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Summer heat loving annuals to plant: zinnia, cosmos, sunflower, four o'clocks, celosia, penta, periwinkle, gomphrena, portulaca, scaevola, coleus, marigolds, dusty miller and angelonia.
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Heat loving garden plants: sweet potato slips, malabar spinach, okra, cantaloupe, pumpkin, summer and winter squash, watermelon and southern peas.
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Magnolia trees typically drop their older leaves in May. The leaves turning yellow before dropping to the ground.
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Sallyfun™ Blue Lagoon Salvia
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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