Northeast Gardening: What's Growing - Part 6, 1 by Sarahskeeper

Sarahskeeper wrote:
Dave, Do you put a heater in the pond for the winter to keep an 'open water' hole?

My old fashion Garden Phlox are showing good color now.
I always hated how the rain made them fall over, so now I prune them.
Around the first of June when they are knee high, I cut them in half. This delays the flowering by about 2 weeks but they are bushier and the rain doesn't knock them down.
This is the smaller of 2 clusters as it looked this morning.
Andy P

Edited to point out the dog fence is 3 feet tall.

This message was edited Jul 31, 2006 2:28 PM