October

• Reduce irrigation settings
• Apply pre-emergent herbicides to weedy groundcovers

(especially for vetch and beggar’s lice)

• Scout for lacebugs (azaleas)
• Harvest pine straw from turf areas under groves
• Plant cool-season annual color at campus entries
• Add hardy spring-blooming bulbs (daffodils, snowdrops) to
  groundcover areas
• Soil sample areas with problems or prior to landscape
  renovations/ installations

November

• Turn off irrigation systems
• Scout for lacebugs (azaleas)
• Soil sample problem areas
• Harvest pine straw from turf areas under groves
• Double check UC prior to commencement
• Ideal time for landscape installation

December

• Cut back freeze damaged perennials
• Mulch over tender perennials (with harvested pine straw)
• Blow leaves and straw from tops of groundcover areas
• Trim liriope, as needed (especially if sun damaged)
• Remulch beds and tree rings (after leaf drop)
• Scout for diseases:

-root / stem rot on annuals and perennials

-leaf spot on annuals

• Scout for slug and snail damage on daylilies, annuals

(apply iron-phosphate bait promptly)

• Transplant / divide perennials
• Propagate groundcovers
• Transplant trees and shrubs (especially if planting in
  non-irrigated areas)
• Harvest pine straw from turf areas under groves
• Ideal time for landscape installation