The Dog Days of Summer

It's been awhile since our last post. We had a beautiful early spring and have had a warm sunny summer so far. We are now into what some call "the dog days of summer".  Some of your plants look great and others look a little weary and wind blown. It is kind of a tricky time of year because we still have a lot of summer left but some of our plants and flowers don't look so hot. This is the perfect time to start working in some fall annuals. If you have a planter with a couple tired looking plants take them out and replace them with a rudbeckia or flowering kale. Mums are always an option too but just know that if you put your mums out now you will probably be replacing them a couple times before fall is over. Mums bloom only once and in this warm weather they will open pretty quickly and bloom for a shorter period of time then they would in the cooler weather. Fall combinations are on their way but in my opinion just wait a little longer. Give your summer flowers the life they deserve.