Evergreens need to be checked for spider mites and treated, if needed, with Organic Veggie Pharm or Organic Rose Pharm, products we carry at Sugar Creek Gardens.

You may divide iris and daylilies this month. Discard old center sections and borer damaged parts of your iris and plant so tops of rhizomes are above ground level. When replanting, be sure to enrich your soil with organic Espoma Triple Phosphate, a product that promotes root growth.

Be sure to feed mums, asters and other fall-blooming perennials for the last time.

Roses should receive no further nitrogen fertilizer after August 15.

Divide oriental poppies this month.

Keep up weeding*, deadheading, pest patrol, and watering; remove faded foliage to brighten up your plants.

Hummingbirds are migrating through gardens now. We have a wonderful selection of hummingbird feeders.

Order spring bulbs this month for fall planting.

We have a wonderful assortment of fall-blooming perennials, such as amsonia, bergenia, aster, eupatorium Joe Pye Weed, physostegia Obedient Plant, salvia, oenothera, caryopteris Blue Mist Shrub and crape myrtle, just to name a few.

Remember: Pansy Dollars Days begin August 29.

*”Every Garden May Have Some Weeds.”
                  ~~~ English Proverb