Planning It’s time to start thinking about spring flowering bulbs like crocus, hyacinth, and tulip bulbs. For best flowering, store them in a paper bag in the crisper section of your refrigerator (away from apples) for at least six weeks before planting. As you select your flowering bulbs to plant this fall, keep in mind […]
Planning If you plan to do some landscape planting this fall, now is a good time to decide on the plants to use and how to arrange them. Start selecting your favourite bulb varieties now by searching out bulb catalogues. It is time to order so bulbs can be planted this fall. Order your spring-flowering […]
Planting To have colour from late summer to fall, plant begonias, impatiens, salvia, marigolds, verbena, and zinnias. For permanent plantings, try perennials such as bearded iris, lavender, coreopsis, statice, gazanias, and gloriosa daisy. For a late harvest of beans, beets, carrots, corn, cucumbers, and summer squash, sow seeds or plant seedlings. Plant full sun annuals […]
Planting Plant basil, rosemary, thyme, sage, savory, mint, coriander, parsley, or chives. You can plant seedlings or most herbs start well by seed. It’s not too late to start warm-season crops: corn, beans tomatoes, squash, peppers, eggplant. Plant or sow summer annuals such as salvia, nasturtiums, vinca, verbena, geraniums, phlox, marigolds, lobelia, impatiens, cosmos, sunflowers, […]
May Tips Plant seed or seedlings of warm-season crops like: tomatoes peas beans sweet corn cucumbers eggplants melons peppers pumpkins and summer squash. Sow beets, carrots, lettuce, and radishes. Plant herbs such as: thyme sage parsley chives basil. Plant spring flowering shrubs like: rhododendrons azaleas camellias. Plant or sow summer annuals such as: geraniums marigolds […]
April tips When purchasing bedding annuals this spring, choose properly grown plants with good colour. Buy plants with well-developed root systems that are vigorous, but not too large for their pots, and lots if unopened buds. Plants that bloom in the pack are often bound by root and can be set back for several weeks […]
Trees If you are buying bare-root trees, look for ones with a large root system in relation to the top growth. It is not necessary to purchase a very, large tree to get a quality plant. Planting Dig, divide, and replant crowded summer and fall flowering perennials like agapanthus, garden phlox astilbe, aster, bleeding heart, […]
Time for ShoppingOrder tubers of Jerusalem artichoke (Helianthus tuberosus)Design a flower bed for a shady area plant this at spring and summer. Plan to try impatiens, foxglove, begonia, and browallia.Order perennial plants and bulbs now for cut flowers this summer. Particularly good choices are phlox, daisy, dahlia, cosmos, aster, gladiolus, and lily.PlantingSet out summer flowering […]
PlanningMake your selections of seeds, and order seeds early, don’t wait until late in thewinter to order seed because many varieties sell out early.Shop for evergreen shrubs such as azalea, camellia and early rhododendronsOrder tubers of Jerusalem artichoke (Helinathus tuberosus)Draw a map of your garden and make copies of it. Garden beds and raised beds […]
PlanningYou’re doing great, it’s almost the end of the year! Now is a good time to buy early-flowering camellias Sasanqua and japonica varieties. PlantingTake Root cuttings of woody shrubs and evergreens, such as azaleas, holly, and hydrangea, at this time of year. Bare-root season begins late this month. Look for cane berries, grapes, and roots of […]