AUGUST

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.

To be watched for in July
	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