August is typically the hottest month of the year, offering the perfect opportunity to relax and appreciate your garden with a barbeque and friends or family. Regular deadheading and watering keep plants in top form, extending the blooming season.
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Flowers
- Sow hardy annuals directly into borders
- Feed and deadhead hanging baskets to keep them flowering
- Plant autumn-flowering bulbs such as autumn crocus or Sternbergia
- Stake tall plants to keep them looking beautiful
- Keep on top of watering in drought to keep your borders healthy
- Keep on top of weeding to prevent perennial weeds from taking hold
- Take cuttings and collect seeds from plants for next year
- Collect cut flowers for indoors and to promote more blooms
- Leave grass blooms for winter interest
Trees & Shrubs
- Prune hedges for the final time this year
- Keep watering newly planted trees and shrubs
- Deadhead shrubs after they’ve flowered
General Jobs
- Top up ponds using natural water
- Open doors or windows of greenhouses on warmer days to increase ventilation
- Dampen the floor of your greenhouse on hot days to increase humidity
- Mow your lawn frequently but lightly to best preserve it during hot weather
- Cut summer-flowering meadows once the seeds have spread
Overview
That’s it for our August Garden checklist. So let’s get out there and enjoy the sun, I know we will be!
