May Gardening
Mother's day is near but don't be fooled by warm days because the night temperatures can drop easily to the 30's and 40's and it's trouble for many annuals and tropical plants that you want to enjoy the whole season. Watch for the changing moon for temperatures to drop. Frost is possible for the nights of 32 degrees. Most blooming annuals love warm weather but hotter weather for the blooms to really take off.
Don't put your house plants out until the end of May. Make sure that they move gradually to full sun as the leaves will burn. In the fall the same for bringing your plants back inside. Move them gradually to less sun then inside as they will not drop leaves as severly. Hibiscus, mandevilla, tibouchina, brugmansia, canna, caladium, papyrus, banana, colocasia, tropical fruit bearing trees, solanum (all potato vines and trees) and others like temperatures above 50 degrees.
Watch roses for those pesty aphids and inchworms that prey on flowers and leaves... use a systemic insecticide.
Annuals such as New Guinea impatiens, impatiens, begonias, coleus and vegetables such as tomatoes, peppers, eggplant, squash and cucumbers need warmer weather as in the third week of May to be planted. Dahlias can be started inside in pots. ( go see the Dahlia garden at Planting Fields this summer!!!!)
Annuals should be fertilized every other week with a good all around bloom boosting fertilizer. This should be routine throughout the summer months.
Remember to make sure seeds are planted into a sterile soil... and they should not be planted outside until all danger of frost is gone and ultimately not until the 3rd week of May.
Oakwood Road Gardens has a huge selection of unusual and exotic annuals and perennials that are blooming throughout the season... new varieties of lantana, verbena, bacopa, coleus, diascia, scaevola, wave petunias, calibrocoa ( million bells petunia), plectranthus, heliotrope, strobilanthus, salvia, osteospermum, argyranthemum, portulaca, non-stop begonia, mini and double blooming impatiens and New Guinea impatiens in all your favorite colors. Did you know there are orange and yellow impatiens and cascading ones too!!!!Many large shipments start the week before Mother's Day. Happy planting
Mother's day is near but don't be fooled by warm days because the night temperatures can drop easily to the 30's and 40's and it's trouble for many annuals and tropical plants that you want to enjoy the whole season. Watch for the changing moon for temperatures to drop. Frost is possible for the nights of 32 degrees. Most blooming annuals love warm weather but hotter weather for the blooms to really take off.
Don't put your house plants out until the end of May. Make sure that they move gradually to full sun as the leaves will burn. In the fall the same for bringing your plants back inside. Move them gradually to less sun then inside as they will not drop leaves as severly. Hibiscus, mandevilla, tibouchina, brugmansia, canna, caladium, papyrus, banana, colocasia, tropical fruit bearing trees, solanum (all potato vines and trees) and others like temperatures above 50 degrees.
Watch roses for those pesty aphids and inchworms that prey on flowers and leaves... use a systemic insecticide.
Annuals such as New Guinea impatiens, impatiens, begonias, coleus and vegetables such as tomatoes, peppers, eggplant, squash and cucumbers need warmer weather as in the third week of May to be planted. Dahlias can be started inside in pots. ( go see the Dahlia garden at Planting Fields this summer!!!!)
Annuals should be fertilized every other week with a good all around bloom boosting fertilizer. This should be routine throughout the summer months.
Remember to make sure seeds are planted into a sterile soil... and they should not be planted outside until all danger of frost is gone and ultimately not until the 3rd week of May.
Oakwood Road Gardens has a huge selection of unusual and exotic annuals and perennials that are blooming throughout the season... new varieties of lantana, verbena, bacopa, coleus, diascia, scaevola, wave petunias, calibrocoa ( million bells petunia), plectranthus, heliotrope, strobilanthus, salvia, osteospermum, argyranthemum, portulaca, non-stop begonia, mini and double blooming impatiens and New Guinea impatiens in all your favorite colors. Did you know there are orange and yellow impatiens and cascading ones too!!!!Many large shipments start the week before Mother's Day. Happy planting
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