September is the new May
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Reenforcing the notion that September is as important as May in the garden, New York Times rookie gardener Sara Barrett concludes her first season with some fall gardening advice.
She gets her advice from Barbara Pierson, from White Flower Farms, and now you can, too.
Barbara tells Sara, among other things, to keep watering, divide her irises, don't hard prune hydrangeas and, most important of all, make notes about what worked this year, what didn't work, and what you would like to try next year, because you will forget by the time spring comes around again!
There is also a lovely little slide show accompanying the article.
Comments
Lovely, Susan.
I only take exception to the advice about saving seeds of Datura (or Angel's trumpets). In my experience they will self-seed like crazy without any intervention.
LOL. Thanks, Dahlink!
Posted by: Dahlink | September 2, 2010 8:00 PM
It's important to continue watering hydrangeas through the fall. Use very shallow cuts to remove flowers that have gone to the brown stage.
Very shallow cuts? Huh?
This is when my weak gardening expertise is exposed!!!! I am thinkiing it means don't cut back too far on the stems. -- Susan
Posted by: Eve | September 3, 2010 10:19 AM