Gardening And More

  June Gardening Calendar 2025 June is the time of year to trim your Big Leaf Hydrangea, Oak Leaf Hydrangea, and Gardenia after blooming. After trimming, use an Azalea and Hydrangea fertilizer and add a new layer of mulch for the summer and fall months. The flower buds are set in the fall months for summer months blooming. Your cool season vegetables have already started to bolt (bloom), which alerts the gardener the season is over for cool season vegetables. You can either pull out the vegetables or till them into the soil to enrich and add nutrients to the soil. We can start thinking about planting winter squash, pumpkins, gourds, okra, and southern peas. There is still time to plant heat tolerant vegetables tomatoes, peppers, eggplants, and watermelons. These I thought are worth mentioning to try in your garden: Malabar Spinach is a heat tolerant alternative to traditional spinach and grows as a vine. The leaves in salads are fleshy and have a peppery, citrus taste ...

  February Gardening Calendar 2025 Trees and Shrubs can be planted now. This is the best time to plant Nut Trees, Fruit Trees, Shade Trees, and shrubs. By applying a combination of Super Thrive and Recharge by Real Growers instead of a root stimulator will get your newly planted trees and shrubs established much faster. Prune Apple and Pear trees after bud break in February, wait until mid-March for Peach trees. Spray fruit and nut trees with a horticulture grade dormant oil before bud break. Remove stakes, trunk wraps, and guy wires from trees planted 18 months ago. 18-24 months is the average time you need to keep the guy wires. Prune when pruning fig trees save the horizontal branches, they are the branches that produce fruit. Is your Burford Holly overgrown? Now is a good time to severely prune back. Burford Hollies can be prune back to 12 to 18 inches. Butterfly bushes can be pruned back by ½ the original height. You will be rewarded with bigger blooms this summer. Annuals...

January Gardening Calendar Basil Start planning for Spring. January is the perfect month to start planning your garden for the current year. As a refresher for last year’s thoughts, ideas or plants you were thinking about purchasing, dust off your gardening journal to see what changes or additions you wanted to make this year. A garden is always evolving. Start looking at seed and garden catalogs. January is a good time to start planning this year’s design features and plants. Seeds and new introduction plants sell out quickly. Don’t miss out and wait, try to order your seeds or reserve your plants soon. Reserving your plant purchase guarantees the plant will ship at the proper time for planting in your USDA zone. Seed starting Kits. Growers recommend starting the seeds indoors in a bright location to get a jump start to spring. There are seed starting kits which are advertised as seed starter germination kit or seed starter greenhouse kit. The kits usually feature a tray, growi...

 Hi Everyone, I just finished my latest book on Houseplants and I am super excited to share the link to the book on Amazon.  Grow Fresh Air Tell me what you think in the comments. Happy Gardening.

  Christmas, Holiday, and Gardening Gift Ideas Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays from Hibiscus and More. At Hibiscus and More we offer a fine selection of gardening and artistic gifts for all your shopping needs. Please feel free to browse our online catalog to find the perfect gift(s): Gardening Books: Southeast Style Gardening: Garden Design, Guides, and Notes.  Available in paperback or kindle. Link: https://www.amazon.com/Southeast-Style-Gardening-Garden-Designs/dp/B08YNXJGMB/ref=sr_1_3?crid=2GTUVJY1W8SSZ&keywords=southeast+style+gardening&qid=1670093763&s=books&sprefix=southeast+style+gardening%2Cstripbooks%2C107&sr=1-3 The perfect gift for the butterfly gardener is Gardening for the Butterflies: Designing and Creating a Butterfly-Friendly Landscape.  Link: https://www.amazon.com/Gardening-Butterflies-Designing-Butterfly-Friendly-Landscape/dp/B0B6LKWFJT/ref=sr_1_21?crid=18GI7S9OGRWKP&keywords=gardening+for+the+butterflies&qid=16700...