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and limp, check for borers. These grub-like insects can ruin an entire planting if not detected and eradicated early.
• Fill the bare spots in the sunny flower bed with moss roses (Portulaca) and fertilize regularly to encourage blooms into the summer.
• Many popular perennials can be divided now, including phlox, fall asters, shasta daisies, baby’s breath and liriope. Set up a plant exchange with Mends and neighbors to share the excess.
• Consider planting flowers which may be dried for winter arrangements. Some of the best are strawflower, statice, Chinese lantern, celosia and globe amaranth.
• Cut flower stalks back to the ground on daffodils, hyacinths, and other spring flowering bulbs as the flowers fade. Do not cut the foliage until it dries naturally. The leaves are necessary to produce strong bulbs capable of reflowering.
• When chrysanthemums show signs of life, dig up and divide large plants. Discard woody portions and replant divisions 12-15 inches apart.
• Aster contraster, a new flower introduction from 1986, is the world’s first aster with stripes. The fully double, incurving three inch blooms come in a wide range of color. Pinks, carmines, blues, lilacs,
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