Today in the Garden
September
Summer wanes this month, making way for the cooler weather and shorter days of fall. During this transition, extreme heat and punishing Santa Ana winds often keep gardeners especially busy meeting their landscape’s water needs. On cool mornings, work begins to ready the garden for the ideal planting weather just weeks away. Get ready by clearing out faded annuals and vegetables, renewing garden soil and “shovel pruning” disappointing plants. Then forge ahead next month, renewing and refining, building and planting, for the landscape of your dreams.
Find Spiders!September is the perfect month to practice your "scream like a little kid" routine, as you walk through spider webs.
- Plant Milkweed
Monarchs love it!
- Echinacea
Coneflowers are plants of prairies and open woods. Give them average, loamy soil in full sun or light shade.