A Month by Month Guide to Planting Flowers! What to grow and when in a hot, southern climate

[@marciar8909]

Yippee. A gardener in 9b who is actually in Texas. 9b California and Florida are definitely different from her. Wishing you well with your channel from HOT San Antonio… well actually cold SA right now. 😊

[@summerskyegardens]

@marciar8909 right on! Texans unite! Yes it is very different in various areas

[@drhappyplants]

Great video! I'm so glad I found your channel. I am a fellow Texas Gardener, El Paso zone 8B 😊

[@summerskyegardens]

@@drhappyplants thanks awesome! Happy to have you here

[@julie1393]

🎉 Yeah! Zone 9b Texas Subscribed!

[@summerskyegardens]

@@julie1393 😃

[@marleneegan-hm7lr]

Oh wow where did you come from? I’m happy to find another Houston area gardentuber!

[@summerskyegardens]

@@marleneegan-hm7lr yay always happy to meet other houstonians!

[@maryannfoster4734]

just what I needed to hear! thank you. Great lesson!

[@summerskyegardens]

@@maryannfoster4734 happy it helped!

[@hollyjones9264]

Thank you so much for sharing ❤❤😊

[@summerskyegardens]

@@hollyjones9264 hope it helped, thanks for watching!

[@thomasphillips6612]

Thank you exactly what I need to know l live in South Texas zone 9b Corpus Christi Texas…👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼

[@summerskyegardens]

@thomasphillips6612 great to hear thanks! Love Corpus one of my bestie lives there

[@thomasphillips6612]

@ Awesome send us some rain we need it so bad down here.

[@thomasphillips6612]

Thank you great information I appreciate this video!👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼

[@summerskyegardens]

@thomasphillips6612 thank you I'm so glad!

[@moiradavis2674]

great video. thanks! where do you get your lisianthus plugs?

[@summerskyegardens]

@moiradavis2674 thanks for watching! I order from Farmer Bailey but you have to order like 12 weeks ahead. They are great tho! You may be able to find ready to ship from them or Leo Berbee or other wholesalers. Also check out the Small Scale Wholesale Grow group in Facebook, I order from them a lot when things are available when I want them.

[@moiradavis2674]

thanks!

[@onehubcapfarm]

I'm in SC Zone 8b so a bit cooler than you but still very hot. So good to hear someone that understands heat. I'm curious about day length for your warm season plants in the fall. How do Celosia and others that are day length sensitive do under short days? Mine tend to get short and go to seed really quickly in the fall. Our first frost is not until the first of Nov or so.

[@summerskyegardens]

Hey there! Yes I would agree with that for the fall, which is why I just start one succession. We have long hot days through October but once into November it does start cooling off and the days start getting shorter. At that point I am just seeing if they can hang in there til Thanksgiving, then we may get a frost in December (or not) but I shut down my sales.

[@onehubcapfarm]

@@summerskyegardens makes sense. I'm planning my fall succession to go in the ground in late July.

[@unseennevada256]

Love the video! Super helpful! I'm looking into growing some snapdragons on our farm but saw the different groupings- I saw some are made for the heat, I believe group 3? Do you recommend growing those in TX or do you only stick to cool season snaps?

[@summerskyegardens]

@unseennevada256 so your best bet, and I've taken this advice from Lisa Mason Ziegler who does this, is to fall plant several groups. They will flower at different times depending on the day length and temps, but overall snaps don't like extreme heat. I've had good success with different groupings, but usually get blooms from mid March through end of May. By June we start having too many 90+ and 100+ days and even the later groups don't like it.

[@unseennevada256]

@@summerskyegardens Incredible, thank you so much!

[@annstclair4668]

I am living in the Caribbean. It's very hot here.

[@summerskyegardens]

@@annstclair4668 your climate should be fairly similar to mine, probably just woth more wind and less freezing!

[@kaprenawheatman8222]

Where do you get lisanthus plugs? I grow them from seed but the germination rate is so low i would love to use plugs so i can enjoy more of them

[@summerskyegardens]

@kaprenawheatman8222 Farmer Bailey, but you have to order 12 weeks ahead. You can also look at Ball, Leo Berbee or other wholesalers.

[@thomasphillips6612]

What’s the best month to direct sow February March or April?

[@summerskyegardens]

@@thomasphillips6612it depends... which flowers?

[@thomasphillips6612]

@@summerskyegardens cone flowers and Shasta daisies.

[@mswgarden]

When you start sunflowers in February when do you usually get your first blooms? Do they (I’m assuming Procuts or single stem) still mature in 55-60 days? Or do they take longer in those cooler months? Have you gotten cooler temps after February? Can they make it okay for one or two cooler nights? Or will it be a total loss if you get a freeze?

[@summerskyegardens]

@mswgarden SO if I start in Feb, they will bloom by end of April or May, usually at 60-70 days. The cooler start makes them start cooler, but they grow fast as it warms up. These are typically my procuts, although I'm going to add in branching varieties to this this year as well for the UPick and see how they do. They can handle frost but not freezing, and honestly with them being young, if it were to frost, I'd cover them. Usually for me by Feb I'm starting to get more days at 50-60 with it getting into 70 by March so they can handle it.

[@mswgarden]

Thank you! We are typically warm here too, but I know we can occasionally dip into cooler temps overnight that time of year. Hoping for a long season of sunnies! 🌻

[@summerskyegardens]

Yeah! Last year I had sunflowers from late April through December!

[@JosephineTeehankee]

Strawflowers...is it ok for zone 10. Or China asters

[@summerskyegardens]

@@JosephineTeehankee They both should be fine growing in the heat! Fall plant the strawflower and spring plant the asters

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