July Landscaping Tips

Here are some timely tips for your July garden!

•Continue weeding

•Water during extreme heat/drought

•Continue deadheading roses and flowering perennials to encourage new blooms

•Deadhead spring blooms, if not already done

•Turn compost pile

•Prune woody vines after blooming

•Prune birch, flowering cherries, lindens and maples

•Finish transplanting annuals into garden (finish EARLY July)

•Pinch back mums, asters, dahlias, cosmos and zinnias

•Cut back spring perennials and/or damaged and spent ones

•Begin to dig and divide spring-blooming perennials (iris, some early flowering daylilies)

And remember... your garden is the friend you can visit any time..