Do These 9 Things to Your Perennials Before July (Or Regret It All Summer)

🔗 Build a beautiful low-maintenance garden that comes back every year, uses less water and costs less to maintain with Henry’s Garden Blueprint: https://henrysgardensecrets.com There is a two-week stretch every June when your perennial garden either gets set up for the rest of the summer, or it does not. Once the first true heat wave hits in early July, the window has closed for the entire year. Beds that get the right work this week look magnificent through August. Beds that skip this week start declining by the second week of July, develop the diseases that no later spray can really reverse, and stop blooming at the exact moment summer is supposed to peak. Nine tasks. One specific perennial behind each one. Forty years in my own trial garden — and almost every gardener I have met handles task number one wrong every single June, and pays for it with the second bloom they never get. Number one is the deadheading mistake that costs American gardeners the second bloom they never get. Most people pinch the dead flower head and toss it aside. The plant has not actually been deadheaded in any way that helps it. The technique that triggers a second flush works on a different principle entirely- and the chain garden centers never bothered to teach customers to do it. #PerennialGardenJune #JuneGardenTasks #PerennialCare #DeadheadingPerennials #DividingPerennials #SeniorGardening #HenryGardenNotes #FortyYearTrialGarden Sources referenced: Chicago Botanic Garden - compost top-dress protocol for perennial display gardens Penn State Extension + Cornell - deadheading research on perennial second-flush triggers USDA Plant Hardiness Zones 4-9 - coverage Maine through Gulf Coast