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To Do List:
AUGUST
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. 1...Don't apply fertilizer to roses or broadleaved evergreens this late in the season

2...Keep 'dead-heading' annuals for continuous blooms

3...If drought occurs, water trees and shrubs weekly

4...Use Sevin to control 2nd brood of chinch bugs on lawns

5...Have you placed your order for fall bulbs yet ?

6...Order your peonies for Sept. planting

7.Now is a good time to plant new lawns or repair established ones

8.Plant colchicums and autumn crocus bulbs

9.When hot and dry, lawns should not be cut too short

10.Transplant bleeding hearts, daylilies, doronicums, lupines and oriental poppies this month

11.Take cuttings of your favorite bedding plants such as coleus and geraniums

12.Transplant lilies only after the foliage has died down

13.If roses have black spot or yellow leaf, pick and burn all affected leaves

14.Plant Madonna Lilies now, cover with no more than 2 inches of soil

15.Keep up your weekly spray program for roses and fruit trees


Did You Know ?

. That in Shakespeare's time it was not that uncommon for salads to contain as many as 30 ingredients such as:
Almonds, Barberry berries, Broom buds, Elder buds, stalks of Purslane, Mushrooms, Currants, Raisins, Samphire, fresh and candied Rose petals, Primroses, Violets, Nasturtiums, Marigold petals, Strawberry leaves, Daisy leaves, Marrons, Yarrow, Sorrel and Borage flowers and leaves.


Butterflies
To be watched for in July
butterfly
. Black-bordered Yellow
Buckeye
Comma, Gray
Crescent, Pearl
Dusky-wing, Sleepy
Emperor, Tawny
Fritillary, Diana
Hair-streak, Gray
Monarch
Parnassian
Pearly Eye
Sulphur, Brimstone
Sulphur, Clouded
Swallowtail, Blue
Viceroy
White, Checkered
Wood-nymph, Common