“The earth laughs in flowers.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
TIPS FOR SPRING
Tips for your spring cleaning and planting:
Ensure to rake dead grass in your lawn to allow new grass to grow.
Prune and fertilize azaleas as soon as they finish blooming. You can transplant azaleas once they have stopped blooming for the season.
Remember to start heavy pruning of hedges any time after mid-March.
If you haven’t already begun, now is a great time to start planting your annuals. But be prepared to protect your new plantings should any late-season frost appear. You can use mulch, pine-straw, newspaper, or other plant and vegetation protective equipment to cover in case of freeze.
Flowers you can plant in your yard or favorite flower beds now:
Annuals: vinca, pentas, marigolds, dusty miller, supertunias, delphiniums,bacopia, marigold, verbena
Perennials: shrimp plant, sapphire dura tanta, hibiscus, confederate jasmine, gallardia, gazania
Get even more ideas for March/early spring planting courtesy of the North Florida Gardening Calendar via University of Florida IFAS Extension. Go to https://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/ep451#SECTION_3.
Happy Planting!
Email Kathy at kathys.creative.gardens@gmail.com for any questions or gardening tips you would like to see in the future.
Kathy’s Creative Gardens & Nursery is located at 196 N. Roscoe Blvd. in Ponte Vedra Beach. (904) 655-7373
