ow to Bring Your Tired Summer Garden Back to Life?

Does your garden start to feel a bit faded by the middle of the summer? Hot weather will do that. But you can bring it back to life. I am going to share four ways to revive your tired summer garden.

Before you start, get all the gardening supplies ready. The first tip is to sheer back the faded foliage of spring bulbs. Spring blooming bulbs like tulips and daffodils look a little bit messy after they bloom. Wait until the foliage turns yellow or brown and starts to dry out. Then gather it together and just sheer it right at the base. This is going to make the garden look neater and provide more room for other plants to. Don’t worry. The spring bulbs will be just fine.

You can also refresh your garden by encouraging perennials to re-bloom. Deadheading or cutting off faded flowers causes some perennials to put up a new flush of bloom. Use a home gardening pruning shear to cut back faded flowers. Some of the best perennials for re-blooming after deadheading include salvia, coreopsis and catmint. And let’s just face it. Some plants aren’t engineered to make it through the whole growing season.

Cool-loving annuals like violas and snap dragons simply fold up in summer’s heat. Replace them and get in some new colors to your window boxes and containers. Once you’ve got all those spring annuals out, it is time to put in some heat-loving, colorful summer annuals. They will continue to bloom throughout the entire season. So you’ll have this go all the way up until frost.

The final tip is to add more colors to the summer garden. A hosta garden is lush, leafy and green, but adding shade loving annuals like begonias can infuse whites, reds and pinks throughout the garden as well. Breathe a new life into your garden. That doesn’t take much effort or expense. You’ll be happy with the results.