Fall Newsletter
When summers lush colors give way to the sunset hues of Autumn it’s time to think about colorful late blooming flowers and grasses to bring your garden back to life.
Top Fall Bloomers for your garden
- Ornamental Grasses
- Black-eyed Susans
- Asters
- Lavender
- Caryopteris ‘Blue Mist Spirea’
- Chelone ‘ Turtlehead’
- Chrysanthemums ‘Mums’
- Kale
- Ornamental Peppers
- Eupatorium ‘Joe Pye Weed’
- Helenium ‘Sneezeweed’
- Helianthus ‘Perennial Sunflower’
- Heliopsis ‘False Sunflower’
- Solidago ‘Goldenrod’
Labor Day signals the start of Fall Lawn Care
- Apply Herbicides to broadleaf weeds
- Fertilize lawns now and again in November
- Neutralize PH in lawn by applying Lime
- De-thatch to remove dead turf grass
- Over-seeding Lawns as needed
Fall is the time to start thinking about spring. . . Bulbs
The definition of a bulb is any plant that stores its complete life cycle in an underground storage structure. They have a period of growth and flowering that is followed by a period of dormancy where they die back to ground level at the end of each growing season. For spring bulbs, the end of the growing season is in late spring or early summer. Spring bulbs start to grow again in the fall and flower the following growing season.
Daffodil History & Lore
Daffodils were brought to Britain by the Romans who thought that the sap from daffodils had healing powers. Actually the sap contains crystals that can irritate the skin. Greek mythology gives us the term narcissus. There was a young Greek named Narcissus. A nymph called Echo was in love with him, but Narcissus broke off the relationship. Heartbroken she hid in a cave and died. Later Narcissus, who was very handsome and quite taken with himself, saw his face in a pool, and as he leaned over to see better, fell in and drowned and became the flower.