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After a long, hot, dry summer, your lawn and landscape may be looking a little tired. Give them some TLC this fall! Now is the time to feed your trees and shrubs, fill in thin areas of fescue, and give your yard the attention it needs heading into winter.

Fall is a great time to plant container grown shade trees, shrubs, and ground covers. Fall planting allows trees and shrubs time to establish a root system before the heat stress of summer.

Fall is for planting and now is a great time to plant container grown shade trees, shrubs, and ground covers. New inventory is arriving weekly. Learn more, read the full article online.

Oklahoma summers are often long with hot temperatures, drying winds, and minimal rainfall. Landscape plantings, especially those installed in the past year, are very susceptible to damage or death during the summer months due to lack of adequate soil moisture.

Most shrubs and perennials may still be planted as long as adequately watered. Crapemyrtle, Althaea (Rose of Sharon), Vitex, and Desert Willow provide excellent summer blooms. Fertilize new plantings with Fertilome Root Stimulator. Heat loving annuals may still be planted for summer color, such as lantana, penta, angelonia, hibiscus, purslane, portulaca (rose moss) periwinkle, begonia, etc.

To ensure success in your Oklahoma lawn and garden, here are some tips for July from TLC Garden Centers, serving OKC since 1980.

June Checklist June is still a good time to plant colorful summer annuals, such as Lantana, Penta, Angelonia, Purslane, Portulaca (rose moss), Periwinkle, Begonia, etc. Most shrubs, trees, perennials, and ground covers may still be planted in June as long as adequately watered. Crapemyrtle, Althaea, Vitex, and Desert Willow provide excellent summer blooms. Fertilize new plantings with Fertilome Root Stimulator. Hibiscus, Esperanza, Plumbago, Bougainvillea, etc. also provide g

If you have arborvitae, junipers, cypress, spruce, cedar, or other evergreen shrubs and trees, now is the time to start checking for bagworms. These destructive pests begin as tiny caterpillars that feed on foliage and quickly build the familiar “bags” that hang from branches. Left untreated, bagworms can strip plants of their foliage and cause severe damage—especially to evergreens.