![Best Fertilizers & Soil pH Levels for your Lawn & Plants](https://tlcgarden.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/Best-Fertilizers-Soil-pH-Levels-for-your-Lawn-Plants-TLC-Garden-Centers-400x250.jpg)
Learn to balance your pH levels with the right fertilizers and more.
![Fall Bulbs: Dig, Drop & Done](data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==)
Add color to your garden next spring with fall planted bulbs!
![Soil: The Key to Great Garden Beds](data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==)
Know what the most important part of gardening is? You guessed it: Soil.
![Perennial Power](data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==)
By selecting perennials with different flowering times, you can extend the perennials color over longer periods of time.
![Verbena](data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==)
This perennial is tried and true in the hot Oklahoma summer sun.
![Shasta Daisy](data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==)
In Oklahoma they can tolerate light shade, especially in the hot summer months.
![Sedum](data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==)
The biggest attraction to these is their foliage itself and the color variations contrast with one another.
![Salvia](data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==)
Meadow Sage with its hues of purple, blue, red and white can be seen blanketing garden beds throughout Oklahoma.
![Rudbeckia](data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==)
Large yellow flower heads with brown or black centers protrude on tall, fuzzy stems with their foliage staying lower to the ground.
![Phlox](data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==)
Garden Phlox tends to be the more popular of the two because of its longer bloom time.
![Monarda (Bee Balm)](data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==)
Monarda is great for mass plantings in garden beds or in container gardens.
![Milkweed (Asclepias – Perennial Variety)](data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==)
Milkweed is the number one food source and nesting place for Monarch Butterflies.