Fall is for planting and now is a great time to plant container grown shade trees, shrubs, and ground covers. New inventory is arriving weekly. Learn more, read the full article online.

Oklahoma summers are often long with hot temperatures, drying winds, and minimal rainfall. Landscape plantings, especially those installed in the past year, are very susceptible to damage or death during the summer months due to lack of adequate soil moisture.

Most shrubs and perennials may still be planted as long as adequately watered. Crapemyrtle, Althaea (Rose of Sharon), Vitex, and Desert Willow provide excellent summer blooms. Fertilize new plantings with Fertilome Root Stimulator. Heat loving annuals may still be planted for summer color, such as lantana, penta, angelonia, hibiscus, purslane, portulaca (rose moss) periwinkle, begonia, etc.