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Our Flower Gardens as We "Fall" into September - Flower Gardening Tips

Our flower gardens should be looking a glorious riot of colors and flowers this time of year. And like in most months, there is yet more we can do in our flower gardens as we go into September. A few more flower gardening tips and experiment tips for the flower garden follow below.

If you have in your flower garden a plant that is looking sickly, is refusing to flower well, and it is in a shady place, then mark that plant. When the fall arrives, dig it up and try it in a sunnier place within your flower garden. Likewise, if you have a plant that seems to be suffering in the full sunshine of the position it has in your flower garden, then move it to a place of partial shade once the autumn arrives. This, of course, assumes the plants are perennials and will have a place in your garden next year. Keep an eye on such relocations next year to see how the plant does in its new spot.

If you have grown lavender in your flower gardens, you will want to pick the flowers before they are past their prime. This is especially true if you wish to use the flowers to make lavender bags for clothes drawers or in some other craft. Flower crafts are one of the side benefits of flower gardening.

If you have gladioli in your flower gardens, they should be blooming well now and be putting on quite a show. If you weather is quite dry, be sure to give them plenty of water. When the flowers fade, the flower stem should be cut out unless for some particular reason you very much need the seed for sowing. If this is not the case, then do not allow the seeds to form as this will take some of the energy away from the bulb below ground. If you want to try to grow glads from seed, be aware that it can take three years from the time they are seedlings to the time they flower. But feel free to experiment. That's part of the fun of flower gardening.

It's possible that even though your flower gardens are in profuse bloom, there are a few things that have not yet begun to flower such as late sown French marigolds and chrysanthemums which we look forward to in September. If you have plants that have already produced their flowers in your flower garden and they are crowding the ones that have not yet flowered, cut them back. This will allow air to get to those yet to bloom and allow them room to grow and blossom in your flower gardens. This will allow them to do their best.

Keep your eye on your flower gardens and pay attention to how your plants and flowers are doing. This is perhaps one of the most important flower gardening tips I can give you. You will with this one flower gardening tip not only be "forced" ;-) to visit your flower garden but will really see how the plants and flowers do within the specific conditions of your own flower garden. See our other articles under Flower Gardening Tips for more about such specific conditions.

© 2006, Sandra Dinkins-Wilson

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