When the flowers die, you can deadhead the blooms ... lilies and petunias are my favorite. Plant tulips in the fall, six to eight weeks before the ground freezes. The “Old Farmer’s Almanac ...
These flowers are also an important source of food for pollinators late in the season. Fall is an ideal time to plant perennials and shrubs, when temperatures are cooler and rainfall is plentiful.
Goldenrod can be blamed by allergy sufferers for their runny noses and itchy eyes, but the rare Charitable Research Reserve in Cambridge wants people to know the weed is getting mistaken for ragweed ...