“Let’s Talk Gardening”

August 23, 2008

Karen’s Backyard with Cindy Townsend: “Candy” Daylily, Abelia, Luna Hibiscus, Sun Coleus, Crape Myrtle, Colorguard Yucca, Garden Phlox, Knock Out Roses, Lime Creeping Thyme, Vitex (Chaste Tree), Scaevola (Fan Flower), Lorepetalum, Blue Atlas Cedar, Echinacea, Tropicana Canna, Ornamental Grass, Weeping Blue Atlas, Lemon Thyme, Fiber Optic Grass, Bacopa, Plumbago, Euphorbia ‘Diamond Frost’, Calibrachoa, Desert Willow,

Ken’s Garden Tips: Fall grass seed, Crossfire and Heartland Supreme

It’s time to apply pre-emergent.

Fall Pots with Kristy Rutland: Rudbeckia, Sedums, Pansies, Purple Fountain Grass, Ornamental Peppers, Croton, Maidenhair Grass, Mexican Firebush, Ornamental Peppers, Mum, Asters, Cordyline, Sun Coleus, Coral Bells (Heuchera), Perennial Plumbago, Croton, Mum, Sweet Potato Vine, Geraniums, Ornamental Pepper, Coreopsis, Lantana.

Plant Pick of the Week: Hal, the camera man, with a cactus.

Brian and Shaun: Things trees do for us. Pick up handout at front desk at TLC.

Marching Orders:

1. Redeem August Bucks.

2. Time to apply pre-emergent.

3. TLC grows 35,000 poinsettias. Come watch them grow. They start coloring up about October 15.

4. Plant spring flowering bulbs between Halloween and New Years.

5. In February apply pre-emergent again.

Best of Show: Sheryl Williams,