It may still be hot and dry here in the Mid - Atlantic , but we are make a picayune glimpse of hope when there is a cooler day now and then . Those days prompt us that fall is just around the corner . With fall border on , we can focalize on some unlike tasks besides the monotonous jobs of watering and weeding our summer gardens .
freshen up your fall container . Now is a great clock time to addfall and wintertime interestto your container . Plant grasses and evergreens as the initiation for your container , as they will last throughout wintertime . append a few extravagantly bleached flowering annuals for the fall that will still have impingement after the frost hits .
Divide peonies(Paeoniaspp . and cvs . , Zones 3–8).Although peonies will merrily stay in the same place in the garden for decades , a great way to get more peonies is throughdivision . descent is the ideal time to do this . First , cut back the foliage of the plant and get rid of it , as the leafage can sway disease . After digging up the clump , tick off for a natural division to trim back . Be sure to avoid cut any new eyes and roots . You should be capable to see the plant ’s growing from the previous season and water parting at that point .
Leave your perennial stand . Do not cut back those perennial just yet ! By September , seeds are ready and can besavedto produce more of the plants you love for your garden or for your gardener friends . you could also allow for them and wait to see where new plants will stop up . In accession to keep open seedpod , leaving the perennial standing provides excellent home ground for insects and little animals .
Apply deer and coney repellent . As the temperatures get a moment cooler , begin to put on animal repellant regularly . With the arrival of fall and wintertime , deer and other four - legged friends will return to the garden more ofttimes . Deer Scram ™ is an in force organic granular product that will last for about a calendar month and is in reality enhance by some moderate rain rather than washed away . For more on repelling deer , read onhere .
Take cuttings from attender plants . Rather than carry tender perennial plants inside , a great space - saving way to save them for next class is totake cuttings . plant such ascoleus(Plectranthus scutellarioidesand cvs . , Zones 10–12),begonias(Begoniaspp . and cvs . , Zones 6–11 ) , andscented geraniums(Pelargoniumspp . and cvs . , Zones 10–11 ) are leisurely to propagate by root in water or stain . Just take a little newspaper clipping , remove the lower leave , and put it in a bud vase or infant food jounce full of water . Once tooth root about half an inch long are seeable , engraft it in a low pot with timber potting mix . Rhizomatous begonia can be root by taking a 1 - inch to 1.5 - inch objet d’art of a rootstalk and implant it in potting mixing or a moist mixture of perlite and vermiculite .
— Michele Christiano is a horticulture assistant at Longwood Gardens in Kennett Square , Pennsylvania .
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Enjoy late summer and early fall bloomers like this ‘Avondale’ blue wood aster (Symphyotrichum cordifolium‘Avondale’, Zones 3–8).Photo: Carol Collins
Grasses make long-lasting and versatile centerpieces for fall containers.Photo: Mark Dwyer
Dig out the entire clump of peonies, and look for natural growing points of division.Photo: Janet Macunovich
These faded ‘Summer Beauty’ alliums (Allium lusitanicum‘Summer Beauty’, Zones 4–9) are displaying seedpods full of collectible seeds.Photo: Michele Christiano
As the months grow colder and native plants die back, more and more deer will turn to your garden to supplement their diets.Photo: Michelle Gervais
Taking coleus cuttings allows you to save those hard-to-find cultivars for summers to come.Photo: Paula Gross
