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16 matches for “spring”
- Japanese snowball viburnum…In late spring the flat white heads sit on the upper surface of each tier, which is the effect the plant is grown for…
- Double daylily…What it actually wants Sun, and water in late spring. Bud blast — buds that yellow and drop without opening — is nearly always a drought…
- Japanese maple…The flowers are tiny red things in spring that you will only notice if you go looking, and nobody grows one for them. What…
- Border phlox…Mulch thickly in spring so the roots never bake, and in April thin each clump down to five or six of the strongest stems…
- Dahlia…Slugs go for the young shoots in spring and earwigs chew the petals later on, neither of which is fatal, both of which are…
- Shrubby salvia…Cut back in spring once new shoots appear low down, and if in doubt, root a few cuttings in late summer and keep them…
- Yarrow…Leave the seedheads for structure if you like them, cut them off if you don't, and clear them before growth starts in spring.
- Penstemon…Wait until spring, find the new shoots low down, and cut everything above them away then.
- Bear's breeches…Slugs and snails will shred the new spring leaves if they get the chance, and powdery mildew can turn late-summer foliage grey. Both…
- Canna lily…Everything else in this border can be ignored until spring; the canna cannot. Frost blackens the top growth overnight, which is your signal — cut…
- Morning glory…like, but in a cool summer this one often fails to ripen any before the frost arrives, so expect to buy fresh in spring.
- Chinese money plant…complaint provided the compost is not staying wet, and the first thing it does in spring is throw up a crop of new offsets.
- Anthurium…Move it into the room, cut the watering right back, stop feeding, and expect no new flowers until spring — the leaves it has will…
- White princess philodendron…Do the moss pole and the pruning in spring.
- Christmas cactus…When it has finished, give it about six weeks cooler and drier before feeding starts again in spring.
- Palm…Move it into the room, stop feeding, and accept that it will not put out a new frond until spring. On the identification This…