
Many gardens are already planted, but now is a great time to expand them and add more color. There are dozens – no, hundreds – of beautiful perennial plants to choose from. What is your favorite color? Do you want it tall or short? Something that blooms in early summer or into the fall? Need plants for shade, plants for sun, foliage plants or flowering plants? These are some of the questions you’ll want think about before choosing your new perennials.
If you are looking for continuous blooms for the rest of the season, annuals are your best bet. Year-round garden


Another easy thing that will give you a lot of return on your time invested is to deadhead. What? That sounds terrible! Don’t worry – that just means to pinch or prune back any flowers that are done blooming. Annual and perennial flowers can benefit from this. If you prune off dead flowers, the plant won’t be spending its energy on producing seed heads. That will give it more energy to produce more flowers!
Just one more thing to add to the enjoyment of your flowers – give them regular meals. The meal I recommend is

So now you have it – the easiest things to do to keep gardens blooming. More time sitting back & enjoying your garden, less time working in it! I’m all for that!
Terrie Schwartz
