- Prune azaleas, if required. Fertilize with Nitro-Phos Azalea, Camellia Food or MicroLife Organic Azalea Food. Feed every 3-4 weeks through September.
- Spray camellias for tea scale with Monterrey’s Horticultural Oil.
- Feed hibiscus every three or four weeks with Nutri Star Hibiscus Food. This plant food can be used on gerbera daisies, bougainvillea, mandevilla and other tropical shrubs and vines.
- MOTHER’S DAY reminder – MAY 10th. Look for our big selection of blooming plants, hanging baskets, pottery, bird baths, and fountains.
- Feed roses with ferti-lome Systemic Rose Fertilizer. Check for insects and spray for fungus. This fertilizer/insecticide is great for crape myrtles. Feed every 30 days.
- Feed the lawn with a slow release nitrogen fertilizer, like Nitro-Phos Super Turf or for organics, Microlife 6-2-4.
- Continue to plant annuals for summer color particularly vinca, portulaca, purslane, salvia, zinnia, begonia, coleus, impatiens, lantana, blue daze, celosia, copper plant, verbena, dusty miller, gomphrena and more.
- Finish planting summer vegetable garden. Vegetables such as okra, peppers, beans, squash, melons, corn, cucumbers, and pumpkins (for Halloween) like the hot weather.
- Don’t forget the 5th Annual Tomato Contest in June