Southeast: April Garden To-Do List

Take pictures . April can be a wonderland of peak , so enjoy it ! While walk the garden pluck smoke , testing hoses , and cleaning birdbaths and feeders , permit yourself be distracted , and deep observe what catch your wonder by take word-painting . Using those moving-picture show for planning , artwork , or social media will inspire you and keep your horticulture spirit high when it might be flag by the end of summer .

get the picture up and disunite . Now is a great time to disunite all except spring - blossom perennial . Mark for move in previous summer ( or move now ) any spring electric-light bulb that have become inundate by other plants . Do n’t remove green foliage ; rather , wait until it turn brown on its own over the next couple of calendar month .

Be patient . You are probably itching to get your trowel dirty , but hold off until the end of the month or the beginning of May for planting most annuals and vegetables . fill the planting urge this month with perennial , affectionate - season grasses , summer bulbs , and shrub first .

Prepare for the growing season . provender and tuck in your perennial and shrub delimitation by applying compost and mulch during this sweet spot between winter grass ( you just pulled them ! ) and summer ones .

Paula Gross is the former Assistant Director of the University of North Carolina at Charlotte Botanical Gardens .

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