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Fall has arrived, and our shelves are full of Pansies, Cabbage and Kale, Asters and Mums. All are great choices for the cool fall weather arriving soon.

Mums and Asters will give you beautiful blooms in the fall for a short period, but they are considered a perennial. A little pruning next summer will get them ready to rebud and give you another beautiful blooming period next fall.

Pansies are what it's all about in the fall! In fact, it's PANSY-monium at Nalls! The weather is perfect to begin planting pansies, and they are our favorite flowers for many reasons:

-Just when it is time to pull our your summer annuals, now, is when pansies look their best. And just when the pansies are starting to look stringy and tired, late May, is when it's time to replace them with your summer annuals. :) What great timing!

-They try their best to give you blooms all winter. They are the only thing that will do that! It's amazing to look outside on a grey January day and see their bright little faces. It's a nice reminder that even the ugliest weather is not permanent and Spring days are coming soon!

- Pansies do great in the ground or in containers, and they can handle full sun to light shade. They also come in a ton of colors including blue, purple, white, red, orange and yellow.

-They are from local growers, so they actually help our economy at home.

- They are the best bang for your buck! They last up to nine months, and are affordable to begin with.

-Some of them are really fragrant, particularly yellow Violas. Violas, or Johnny Jump Ups, are in the Pansy family and look like mini-pansies. They are what we always plant on our rock wall by the road Oct-May. And with that, who are you calling a pansy?? They are touch enough to survive the rock wall by Beulah, which we all know is practically ON Beulah Street!

Watering Instructions
To properly water a tree or shrub, place a hose on trickle at the base of the plant.  Follow the chart below for a suggested length.  Water more frequently in the spring and summer.  Plants in direct sun and plants that have been installed in the last six months should be watered more often.

Plant Size	Minutes
1-2 feet	2
2-3 feet	3
3-5 feet	2
6-8 feet	6
1-1.5 inch's caliper	15
1.5 + inch's caliper	20

 

For a potted plant, use good quality potting soil and leave a few inches at the top of the pot to hold water.  The pot also needs to have good drainage, so it is best to have an inch to three inches of rocks in the bottom of the pot.  Water daily, and in the summer heat, an additional watering may be required.  Always water thoroughly, until water flows from the drainage holes in the bottom.

Deer Resistant Plants
Generally deer do not like plants that are poisonous, fuzzy, smelly, or have sharp foliage or thorns.  Here are two lists; one is deer resistant, the other is deer attracting.  Unfortunately, deer are very fickle, and you may experience different results.