What To Do In Your Southern California Garden In June

To keep your Coleus and Caladium plants in top form, be sure to pinch off the faded leaves and flowers, water consistently and make sure to use an all purpose fertilizer.

If you want continuous blooms from you gladiolas plant some bulbs every few weeks and you will have blooms throughout the summer.

Feed your roses!

As it gets hot, check that the water in your container and potted designs are adequate. If you have your drippers turned down, you might need to turn them up a little.

If you trim the old bloom ends from you Crape Myrtle trees you will encourage lots of new flower formation.

Fertilizing your summer annuals will encourage blooms.

Beneficials: Nematodes applied now can destroy Japanese beetle grubs that live in the ground. You can also control budworm with Bt. (budworm love petunias & geranium so keep your eyes open for holes)

Diatomaceous earth can be used to control earwigs. You need to spread it around where they live.

Be sure to keep an eye on your vegetable crops and harvest them as they reach optimum size.

Trim off old bloomed out spikes of Salvia, Pentas, and Penstemons. This type of trimming (deadheading) will encourage new blooms and extend the bloom time of the plants.

It is time to prune the spring blooming Ceanothus. Make sure that they are finished blooming and give them a nice haircut.

Palm Fertilizer Notes:
Apply slow-release fertilizers to your palms. They provide nutrients over a long period of time. The main advantage to slow release fertilizers is they are convenient. The best fertilizer regimen for palms is three applications per year: once in early spring, once in early summer (now), and once in late fall. Use a balanced fertilizer (equal numbers) with micro-nutrients.

For more about my designs: thegrassisalwaysgreener

xoxo

leslie

pexels-alena-shekhovtcova-6995886

Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Quisque ut ullamcorper libero. Cras lacinia aliquet mauris, nec semper enim vulputate vitae. Mauris nec nisi congue sem suscipit lacinia nec eget libero. Integer bibendum, mi eu pretium sagittis, arcu dui gravida elit, vel aliquam odio ante eu lectus.  

pexels-karolina-grabowska-4466491

Don’t Miss a Thing!

Enter your email below to be the first to know about sales, new products and tips for taking care of your pieces. 

The Secret to the Perfect Glaze

YOU MIGHT ALSO LIKE

Wordless Wednesday

Wordless Wednesday Inspiration for Your Southern California Garden (Roses after the rain, sweet strawberry as a ground cover, portrait of an apricot rose) Roses sure

Read The Post

Wordless Wednesday

Wordless Wednesday Inspiration for your Southern California Garden (Loropetalum chinense, Euriobotrya deflexa, Photinia fraaserii) Would you like a little more color in your life?  There

Read The Post

Wordless Wednesday

Wordless Wednesday Inspiration for your Southern California Garden (Alyogne, Phlomis fruticosa, Ceanothus ‘Dark Star’) Times have been strange, but gardening and creating a beautiful garden

Read The Post