Make some shopping expeditions to your favorite nurseries. They will offer a vast array of bedding plants, trees and shrubs from which to make your selections.
Tasks--Plant cool- or warm-season grasses from seed or sod and aerate existing lawns.
Pruning--Finish deciduous pruning--chip debris for mulch.
Fertilizing--Fertilize camellias and azaleas that have finished blooming.
Planting--Add permanent plantings of non-deciduous and needle evergreens; fibrous begonia, twinspur (Diascia); autumn crocus; cabbage, lemon grass (Cymbopogon); Santa Barbara daisy (Erigeron karvinskianus), wallflower (Erysimum), blanket flower (Gaillardia); bird of paradise bush (Daesalpinia), beautyberry (Callicarpa) [see picture], bottlebush (Callistemon), camelia.
Things To Ponder--If an extremely dry year is forecast, limit new plantings. Consider converting to drip irrigation.
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