The page on the calendar has twist . It ’s already July , which came in on a flood in Oklahoma . Today is grey-headed , but I do n’t take care . grey skies bring coolheaded weather condition . July will be hot and humid shortly so enjoy it while you’re able to and get those July garden chores done .
It ’s a completely different garden this twelvemonth . Some industrial plant have died from too much rain and Oklahoma ’s clay land . I thanked them for their military service , ripped them out and proceed on . Plants die . I ’ve lost several thing in this weather , including my flyspeck ‘ Troll ’ ginkgo . Yes , it ’s sad , but the petty guy just could n’t manage the heat waving we had before the last rain . So , I ’m replacing it with a purple fountain grass like ‘ Fireworks ’ until I resolve on something more lasting . Grasses grow apace and fill up in bare spots . Thank goodness .
Earlier in springtime , I moved myHydrangea angustipetala‘MonLongShou ’ Golden Crane ® to a fresh border with terrible drainage . I did n’t know how bad the drain was until it started to suffer . By the time I see out what was happen , it look very , very sad . So , I returned it to its former bit . All of this moving may kill it , and I ’ll have to try again . I ’m telling you this because every gardener makes error and has failures . It ’s okay , if sometimes frustrating and expensive .
I think I would share my July garden chores with you . They ’re list below .
Try tropical plants for summertime . Tropicals are so happy with Oklahoma ’s current hot and humid weather because these term replicate the plants ’ aboriginal environment . If you have holes in the garden , study plunking a tropic plant in the empty place . No , they are n’t recurrent , but anything that blooms abundantly , or struts an interesting foliage when the quicksilver tally 100 ° F is n’t going survive an Oklahoma winter . deal tropicals your little mordant garden dresses for summertime .
Some corking tropic plants to seek are :
Sun Parasol Garden Crimson mandevilla with Surdiva Blue scaevola in a blue pot. I haven’t a clue what that white thing is on the container–maybe a sticker? Suntory sent the plants to me. I like them both.
Two unlike varieties of Kong coleus .
In late summer of 2011 , the only mete that looked good that dreadful summer was the one by the service department planted with tropic plants . Here , motley oyster flora , ‘ Peter ’s Wonder ’ flame nettle , genus Alternanthera and heliotrope make a very pretty picture .
Salvia elegens ‘ Golden Delicious ’ pineapple sage in front of my red fountain last drop . No filter , just backlit with beautiful October sun .
Several containers on the back deck. In the pot on the left is ‘Princess Caroline’ grass, ‘Henna’ coleus, purple scaevola, Superbells® Coralberry Punch calibrochoa and alternanthera. All of these are tropical plants so they don’t mind the heat as long as you remember to water.
frequent for crapemyrtle shrub and trees . you may plant crapemyrtles in full Dominicus in this weather , and they will do fine as long as you remember to irrigate them . If you draw a blank , they will lease you make love . Why shop for them now ? Because they are pop to come into bloom . Do n’t just fall for a pretty flush though . Make certain the crapemyrtle you choose is the good one for its locating . Before you corrupt , look online to see if your kind will acquire too large for its space . Buy the ripe sized crapemyrtle , and you wo n’t require to execute operation on it every spring .
Put out more Nolo Bait ™ and Bacillus thuringiensis ( Bt.)This will be my third app of Nolo Bait ™ . I normally only put it out twice , but the rain washed it off both times . As soon as this showery spell is over , I ’ll put out another lotion . Also , I have some Bt . spray for the Checkerspot Butterfly caterpillars . They ’ve destroy several of my smutty - eyed Susans . I do n’t bear in mind sharing some plants with them , but they are ravening this year . These are both organic ascendence only applicable to the fussy pest . They wo n’t ache other creature let in human race . By the way of life , I only put Bt . on the plant life being hit the hardest . I do n’t spray the whole garden because I do n’t want to suffer other caterpillars like those of the Monarchs and other butterfly stroke . Bt . also helps slow down theredbud leaffoldersonThe Rising Sun ® redbud . For some reason , this cultivar is a leaffolder attracter . The Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree was nearly destroyed in class past .
get across on the gallery below to see more picture of the garden . I walked around the outside to get some unlike angles this time .
‘Trailing Plum Brocade’ coleus would look great spilling over a wall or a container.
Mulch . If you mulched with fast - decaying thing like tear up folio or fine pine , you may demand to add to it . We ’ve had a mountain of pelting that has train a toll on mulch that floats . The rain has been rushing in or else of fall gently . I do n’t know about you , but not only is some of my mulch at the bottom of the James Jerome Hill , but the gravel from my paths is too . Also , when it is n’t rain , the weather is hot , muggy and buggy . In blistering weather condition mulch disintegration quicker . I ’ll be adding some shredded foliage to my beds this hebdomad around the plant life , peculiarly anything new . It ’s really the untimely time of twelvemonth to plant unexampled things , but the atmospheric condition has been so rainy , I take chances .
Add shred leaves to swampy borders . The new border next to the sign has a part that is full of stiff . Not only that , the delimitation within the keep on bulwark drains into this layer . After the five to six inches from a few days ago , along with last night ’s rain , I now have a swampy mess in the middle . I ’ll work some rip up leaves into this swampland with the hope that dew worm will get out up the nasty remains . I wo n’t implant anything there until next spring . I ’ll probably add some chicken manure to it too .
Fertilize with an all - natural liquified fertilizer . The garden could use a mid - summer rise so I ’m go away to put a hosepipe - end fertilizer atomiser on and spray organic swimming plant food all over the garden . It will smell out like a lake for a couple of day , but the industrial plant will be all the good this tonic . Make certain your organic fertilizer has fish photographic emulsion and molasses ( or some other raw hold fast agent ) , I likeJohn ’s formula from Lady Bug Branda lot . I also likeJobe ’s Organic All Purpose Fertilizerwhich is granular . you may just throw it down on the soil and insure with mulch . Do n’t forget to fertilise your containers too . A lot of water bleed through those containers so they need all the avail they can get .
Two different varieties of Kong coleus.
Deadhead blooming works . Any flora that have finished blooming can be deadheaded now to encourage more efflorescence . I do n’t deadhead my hydrangeas because I like to leave the flush intact and learn them plough to a beautiful brown or sour pink . Later , in dip , I might hack some of them to lend inside . However , I watchfully deadhead my rose wine , lilies , daylilies , daisies and echinaceas so that their muscularity goes back into the plant instead of into forming seed . Also , you might cut back your asters again . I only cut back my mamma once , but my aster are gaga this class . I cut them back three time , and some still bloomed . I ’ll cut them back again because I need fall flower .
Continue weed . Weeding is ever constant , but it gives me meter to get my mind be adrift while I still get something accomplished . As I weed , I ponder all of the blessing in my life . Blessings like all of you who read this web log .
Okay , that ’s all of the July garden job I can cogitate of . approximate I ’ll go have a methamphetamine hydrochloride of iced afternoon tea and watch the sun set – if I can find it in all of these clouds .
In late summer of 2011, the only border that looked good that dreadful summer was the one by the garage planted with tropical plants. Here, variegated oyster plant, ‘Peter’s Wonder’ coleus, alternanthera and heliotrope make a very pretty picture.
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Salvia elegens ‘Golden Delicious’ pineapple sage in front of my red fountain last fall. No filter, just backlit with beautiful October sunlight.
Pink Velour® crapemyrtle that died all the way to the ground in the winter of 2011. It bounced back in 2012.
The border where Hemerocallis ‘Desert Flame’ resides is quite swampy in places. I’ll be adding leaves to set the earthworms to work.
