As the season starts changing, we start growing the plants you want for autumn gardens and decorating. Choose your mums, pansies and other cool-weather plants soon for best selection.
Happy Autumn! September 22 (9:09 PM Mountain Daylight Time) marks the beginning of fall this year and the bright sun and cooler days make it a great time to be outside in the yard and garden. Roots are growing like crazy everywhere (fall's their busiest time). Weed competition is light and wind stress is less in the fall than in other seasons. Insect populations dwindle markedly this month.
There's harvesting to be done of late-blooming flowers like dahlias and late-ripening vegetables. There's lots of fall cleanup to be done. There are notes to take on what did well and what did poorly. It's time to clean bird feeders and get them ready for the cold weather, and please keep hummingbird feeders up and filled (see "September Wildlife" below for more information). And fall—not spring—happens to be the perfect time to create new planting beds for next year. Perennials, shrubs, vines, and trees can still be planted this month and now is a great time to plant bulbs.
Yes! It's only August and Payne's is preparing for Christmas. We have planted hundreds of poinsettias so you will have plenty of homegrown plants to choose from. We'll be taking progress photos and posting them as the plants mature. Come back often to see the great colors and varieties we'll be offering this holiday season.
