Early Spring
Joe Cappel’s Garden Center is now open! We offer a wide variety of plants, potted arrangements and hanging baskets. Come visit us and let our staff help you with your project.
Add Color with Cool season annuals.
Annual flowers fall into two categories: varieties that like it warm and varieties that like it cool. Most cool-season annuals, such as pansies and violas, nemesia, diascia, calendula, poppy, snapdragon, and sweet alyssum, can take a little frost. Plant them in beds and borders or containers and gain a few early weeks of color.
Tip: Most cool-season annuals fade when summer heat arrives; replace them with heat-loving varieties, such as petunia, pentas, nasturtium, vinca, and lantana, for color all summer long.
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Divide Overgrown Perennials.
Give you older perennials new life by dividing them. Dig up varieties (such as Siberian iris, aster, coreopsis, yarrow, Lirope, day dilies and many hostas) that form dense clumps and split them apart. They’ll bloom better when they’re not crowding each other out — and you end up with more plants to fill in your yard or to share with friends and neighbors.
Tip: You don’t need to worry about dividing peonies, bleeding hearts, baptisias, amsonias, or hellebores; these varieties do just fine on their own. Splitting them can set the plants back.
Start your Seeds Indoors
For the “Do It Yourself” growers out there who enjoy growing their own plants from seed, now is the time to start.
Wave Petunia Instructions & Care
The best use for Wave Petunias:
- Wave Petunias can be planted in just about any sunny location. They have outstanding garden performance, plus they also work well in hanging baskets, large containers and window boxes.
A few things to remember when planting Wave Petunias:
- Plant Wave Petunias after the last spring frost when night temperatures stay above 40 degrees consistently. We recommend keeping them inside in a sunny location until then, or put them outside in sun during the day, and bring them back in at night.
- Plant in full sun (minimum of 6 hours per day).
- The more established the plant, the more heat tolerant it is. If you can, plant your Wave Petunias early enough to enable them to establish strong root systems before high temperatures set in.
- Maintain the same plant depth as the original pot or pack. Visit sandiegodownsizing.com/.
- Space Wave Petunias 12 to 24 in. apart in garden beds.
- For lush, full container displays, place 3 plants in a 10-12 in. container, hanging basket or patio planter. Larger containers will require additional plants for an attractive, proportioned display.
- Using mulch protects the roots and conserves moisture, however, Wave Petunias form their own solid mat of color as they grow.
Care:
- Don’t let your Wave Petunias dry out between watering. They need plenty of water, but keep in mind that the soil in beds and containers must be well drained and containers dry out faster than in-ground beds. If possible, water your plants in the morning so the foliage dries before evening.
- Wave Petunias are heavy “feeders”. The full potential of Wave Petunias will not be realized from hungry plants. Apply a liquid fertilizer every 10-14 days.
- Wave Petunias are low-maintenance; you don’t have to cut the plants back or remove dead flowers. The faded blooms will dry up and drop off the plants on their own, with more appearing continuously all season long.
Materials & Supplies
Choose from our selection of bulk and bagged mulch, pine straw, rock and stone, topsoil, and natural soil additives. Custom order any other supplies that you may need to complete your landscaping project. Local delivery available.
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