This Month in the Garden Plant garden chrysanthemums now for colorful fireworks in fall. If your garden has a tropical motif, cannas are great background plants that love full sun and produce blooms ranging from white, coral, pink, apricot, salmon, yellow or red.
Nasturtiums look good enough to eat, and both flowers and leaves are edible.
They make great additions to a green salad. They grow from seed and come back year after year. Marigolds are big showoffs this time of year. Check out the selection of transplants at your garden center. Once you've harvested blackberries, cut down the old canes to the ground and loosely twine new growth on a trellis for support.