Monthly Gardener Calendar
Suggestions and ideas to help you enjoy gardening! 🌹
August
Planning
Planning
- Plan beds for bulbs. Order tulips, hyacinths, irises, daffodils, narcissus, and amaryllis.
- Plant daylilies in a sunny location. They need to be well-established before winter.
- Divide and transplant Louisiana irises, Easter lilies, cannas, liriope, ajuga, and Shasta daisies.
- Plant mums for September bloom and fall color.
- Plant marigolds, asters, zinnias, and celosia to replace faded annuals.
- Plant seeds of calendulas, columbines, English daisies, forget-me-nots, pansies, and violets.
- If acid-loving plants including azaleas, camelias, and gardenias show signs of chlorosis (yellowing of leaves), treat with iron chelate.
- Feed mums with a complete fertilizer every 2 weeks and water thoroughly.
- Cut back annuals such as impatiens and vincas to encourage fall blooms.
- Disbud camellias, dahlias, and chrysanthemums to produce specimen blooms.
- Cut back rose canes to 24–30 inches from the ground for autumn blooms.
- Water your garden deeply but infrequently throughout the month.
- Water early in the morning if possible.
- Water potted plants and hanging baskets daily.
- Make sure azaleas, camelias, and fruit plants stay well-watered because they are forming flower buds for next year.
- Mow weekly and leave clippings on the lawn.
- Turn your compost pile.
- Feed the birds.
- Pampas grass.
- Ageratums, angel’s trumpets, balsams, begonias, caladiums, cannas, celosia, clematis, dahlias, four-o’clocks, lilies, hostas, impatiens, marigolds, periwinkles, phlox, portulacas, rattle boxes, salvias, zinnias.
- Golden raintrees, beautyberries, apples, pears.
