![]() If September brings cooler weather and rain, weed seeds will start to germinate. It’s very important to keep the grass high in August.Leave clippings on the lawn to naturally fertilize. Don’t remove more than 1/3 of the top at a time. Keep the roots cool by leaving the grass long. Remove damaged leaves to the trash (not the compost pile). Aphids and other insects can create sooty mold on plants, a fungus that develops from their secretions (honeydew).Aphids and other insects can plague crape myrtles and other trees in summer (“raining trees” are due to the honeydew secretions).Be sure to get the undersides of the leaves. It’s easy to spray them off with a hard blast of water. Fertilize every few weeks through growing season. Citrus with high nitrogen fertilizer like Citrus-tone.Foliar feed flowers and vegetables with liquid seaweed.Cut stalks of plants like coneflower to the rosette.Late August to early September: lightly prune perennials and roses to encourage fall blooming.No need to apply pruning paint to other trees.OKAY to prune red oaks and live oaks until February.Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Vegetable Planting Guides (Central Texas).If you must, shade newcomers and water daily if soil is dry. It’s best planted in full sun and well drained soil and it does spread underground in the winter so it pops up all over the place the following spring in your yard. It also does well in natural, meadowy plantings with other wildflowers. They don’t respond well to that and can have root rot. It does great in rocky, shallow soils with no supplemental irrigation so don’t water these plants too much once you establish them. It’s very happy in the hottest, least cared for part of your landscape. ![]() Plant in late summer or early fall along with other wildflowers. They also have yellow, powdery pollen pistils, giving them another common name, buttercups. As its name suggests, the flowers open in the evening but also during the day. It spreads easily so it makes a great ground cover, especially for large natural areas. But it does get much wider if given plenty of space. It’s normally only about 8 to 12 inches tall and 15 inches wide in the landscape. ![]() It dies back in the heat, but re-emerges again in cool weather to bloom in spring. ![]() It has dark pink flowers and they start out kind of white and then they turn to pink. Also called Mexican evening primrose, this is one of our beautiful native wildflowers. ![]()
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