Summer Garden Checklist
While June 21st may be the official start of summer, we gardeners in Southern California relish the still-cool days of “June gloom”. As spring makes its way into summer we can still get out in the yard and do some planting well into Fourth of July, when the sun will bid the high clouds and cooler morning temperatures adieu.

Though watering, mulching and weeding are your primary chores in summer, Burkard Nurseries can supply any of your plant or seed needs as well as colorful and unusual garden art for that perfect spot in your landscape.

Keep planting those vegetables! Biweekly planting from seed or our healthy six packs of cucumbers, heat-tolerant lettuce and squash will prolong your harvest well into fall. Experiment with our many varieties of tomatoes and peppers. If you want a pumpkin for Halloween, plant one before the 15th of June.

Some of the best plants, sold at Burkard’s, for hot summer weather are verbena, vinca rosea and zinnia, but one can also choose from Burkard’s large assortment of various bedding plants. Our colorful canna lilies are real show-stoppers! The Tropicanna Gold, Canna has vivid orange-yellow flowers with a dark orange-speckled throat and large exotic leaves striped with green and gold. In the garden or in a container this plant will provide dramatic color during its long bloom season. Other summer and fall bloomers include agapanthus, daylily, coreopsis, dusty miller, gaillardia, gerbera and yarrow.