- Bulbs ordered last month will begin to arrive and you can plant them as soon as the soil is ready. It’s still not to late to get an order in for bulbs.
- Transplant perennials that were sown in late summer e.g. delphiniums, forget me not, primroses.
- Divide astillbes, daylilies, lily of the valley, peonies, phlox, Shasta daisies, Siberian iris, and violets.
- Take cuttings of overgrown tender plants like impatiens and geraniums etc to bring indoors for the winter.
- Root prune recalcitrant Wisteria. If your maturing wisteria has failed to bloom make vertical cuts with spade about 10 inches away from the trunk outlining a circle. If its trunk is thicker than 1″ add 10 inches to the distance for every additional inch of trunk. Then fertilize with a high phosphorus fertilizer like rock phosphate or bone meal.
- Stop deadheading roses and allow hips to form. This helps roses slow down and prepare for dormancy.
- Keep deadheading annual flowers and other perennials to maintain bloom till frost.
- Remove old flowers from late blooming subshrubs like heaths and heathers.
- Keep cultivating as weeds pick up with increased rainfall and cooler weather. Many weeds will overwinter but it they are easier to control now while they are small.
