How Do You Like Summer Garden

Spring is a busy time for gardeners, flowers, and it can be a relief to have a break in the hottest months to enjoy the fruits of their labor. However, hard working gardeners know that a few carefully planned orders can give you more bang for your buck in a flower garden. Continue to take care of annuals and perennials in the summer months in order to ensure the continued effects of flowers until the first frost.


Cutting Summer bouquet is more than just a way to decorate your living room or kitchen. Most of the benefits of regular annual cut, if you decide to get rid of the old flowers or taking fresh flowers in a vase. Cut annuals produce a dense, vigorous growth, and it stimulates the plant to produce more flowers in an effort to fulfill its mission to produce seeds. Do not get caught up in trying to save the last two or three spindle-shaped blooms on verbena or Alyssum cute! Shifting the entire plant back by one third, and watch new buds will appear shortly.

For perennial flowers, Carriage can control the spread of unwanted plants. Some perennials, such as, Coneflowers, are notorious for capturing plot garden seeds they drop. Gardeners must weigh her desire for order before care benefits flowers are used to provide winter interest and food for animals.


In late June, the warm humid summer nights can contribute to the development of diseases such as mildew and black spots on the leaves of susceptible plants. Water plants in the morning to allow the foliage dry quickly when the sun comes out. Avoid wetting the leaves too using soaker hoses.

Use of organic sulfur or copper based fungicides on plants minimal impact, but to destroy annual plants that serve as evidence of disease more than 50% of their leaves. The use of fungicides in the evening to avoid leaf burn. Keep diseased plants from your compost. Avoid any sick leaves into a pile brush or buried so that it can be spread naturally.

A thick layer of mulch, which seemed to overshadow the emerging spring plants can be surprisingly thin now. Heat and moisture cause of organic mulch to break down quickly, so add as much mulch to maintain a 3-inch layer around flowering plants, including those that grow in containers. Exceptions are plants such as alpine carnation, which can experience root rot if the mulch is applied too close to the plant crown. If you are overwhelmed by the mass of green compost bin, you can use the excess grass clippings as mulch in a flower garden.