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SUMMER HORTICULTURE

It’s Summer perennial time!

6/28/2020

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...and our nursery has never had more perennials than we have now.
Last night we got some rain then the front escaped with a high following, showing off its characteristic awesome sunset that we get after each storm passes by. I just had to go out and take a picture. Too bad my phone can’t take a wide angle photo. Maybe it can, I just don’t know how to do it.

The rain we got last night came in two downpours with each one getting things wet but not penetrating the rock hard concrete-like soil.
Do not think for one nano-second that any of the rain we got makes one difference in the sad state of the hydrology in Connecticut now- it doesn’t.

​And... if you have planted anything this spring or last fall, you need to water by hand... with a hose.
One woman bought a butterfly bush that began to die within a day or so. When asked, “yes,” she is watering daily. When pressed on her watering technique, she said her irrigation was watering it.

“No, it’s probably not enough,” I told her. The pot the plant came in is 12” deep, and an irrigation system designed for lawns just gets things wet visually. I told her to water with a hose instead.

Another lady said her trees arrived just in time for the rain. She got her trees three days ago, and it rained last night. I informed her about proper watering (and how rain does not count), and I hope these examples serve as a gentle reminder to everyone to get that water down into that root system if you wish for plant success during this trying time.
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  • Home
  • FALL HORTICULTURE
  • spring horticulture
  • Products
    • Shrubs >
      • Trees
    • Bulk Mulch >
      • Firewood
    • Topsoil
    • Perennials
  • Summer Horticulture
  • Veggie blog
  • Planting
    • Planting
    • Feeding
    • Watering
  • Frequently Asked
  • About
  • Gallery
  • Surfing
  • Past Seasons Blogs
    • fall 2018
  • How to Save The Monarch Butterfly
  • Blog
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