Summer Gardening - good time to plant your shade perennials

A summer rain show is always a welcome event for the gardener. The rain softens the soil and everything in the garden gets a nice drink. I do a lot of planting in the summer. We harvest seed in May and plant them in June. I cultivate new beds of Lenten Roses in June, July and August with a combination of seeds, 2 year olds and mature plants. This ensures that the bed get a head start on itself. Remember, the Lenten Rose takes four years to mature into a flowering plant so by planting a combination of different size/age plants we don't have to wait quite as long for the new bed to mature and fill in.

The summer is also the time to pot up any inventory I plan on selling at the end of the year and into the flowering months of next year - Feb/Mar/April - when the Lenten Rose is most popular.

We are always glad to help any new or existing Lenten Rose growers, whether you are a wholesale nursery or a hobbist grower - you are welcome and we can help.

Next month, in July's installment of the Lenten Rose Almanac will cover planting a bed of Lenten Roses.

Happy Gardening

Richard Giardini

LentenRose.com

Lenten Rose Almanac for June 2010

It's June and time to clean up your Lenten Roses. Here's the June installment of the Lenten Rose Almanac that talks about just that. This hardy shade perennial now takes on it's secondary roll through out the summer and early fall as a lush ground cover.

It is also a great time of the year to plant or transplant 4 year olds. We ship year round so order now and take advantage of our Summer Special - one free 4 year old with every order. Happy Gardening