Seasonal Plant Tips
Fall cleanup time
“An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.”
One of the most important things you can do in your flower beds and garden this Fall is to remove all diseased plants, vegetables and weeds. Bacterial and fungal diseases as well as insects can winter over in debris and re-infect new plants next year. Good sanitation will result in less problems next year.
Also
-remove frosted annuals
-trim messy perennials- leave healthy perennials for the winter. Their seedheads will feed the birds.
-dig up tender bulbs
-plant next spring blooming bulbs.
-recycle fall leaves. Use the lawnmower to chop them up. To improve your garden soil imcorporate chopped leaves into the soil.
If you are reblooming last year’s poinsettia, it should be starting to show some color by early November. 
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Hi Kris, I got a thorn less Logan Berry Bush do I need one more for pollination? Thanks
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I live in southern Nevada and I have been collecting several different catus/succulent
plants and putting them in pots around my yard. Now that it’s getting colder, I would like to keep them outside..but it does sometimes freeze here. Can I put them under my overhang by my house and keep them outside all winter?
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I planted a bee balm in spring and I would like to know the best way to take care of it before winter so that I can enjoy it year after year. Thank you !
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Have several nice roses. Las Vegas, with day time temps above 110 and roses have stopped growing. Watering 5 days a week. Leaving for 2 months. What is recommendation to prep roses to best survive 2 months (Aut & Sept) of neglect? Leave water the same or cut back? Cut stems back to 6-12 inches? Leave stems long and with buds in place (theorize if they are making seeds they will not put energy into growing wild once the temps drop)? What’s a gardener supposed to do???? Thanks for any help you can give.