Monthly Gardening Horoscope: Leo

As the dreamworld of Cancer comes to an end, the astrological gardening calendar picks up energy, and we suddenly find ourselves in Leo’s broad radiance. Ruled by the sun, this is when summer ripens to its full magnificence, our vegetable gardens overflow with harvest, our flower gardens are at peak abundance, and we get to savor the banquet of summer’s fullest season!   

 

Spotlight on Leo: Qualities and Characteristics

Leo is the embodiment of a regal lion or lioness, a personality who sees the world in a larger-than-life way and strives to live life to the fullest. Leos have a strong will to carry out their desires, a noble and generous nature, a grand imagination, a penchant for luxury, and a love of being in the spotlight. In the garden, these attributes translate into a time of abundance and celebration.   

 

Nature’s Orchestra in the Time of Leo

Leo brings a banquet of natural splendor to our Pennsylvania woodlands. Wildflower meadows welcome vibrant asters, black-eyed Susans, goldenrods, and coneflowers, while fruit-bearing trees and shrubs are ripe with blackberries, raspberries, elderberries, and wild grapes. Bees revel in the late-season flowers, monarch butterflies begin their southward migration, and damselflies and dragonflies hum near the ponds as the annual meteor showers illuminate our mid-August night skies.  

 

The Garden’s Banquet in the Season of Leo

Home gardens are likewise ripe with overflowing abundance. Sunflowers proudly track the sun from dawn to dusk, bees dance around yellow coreopsis blooms, vegetable plants and fruit trees are ripe with their late summer gifts, and farmer’s fields are bursting with sweet corn, tomatoes, peppers, and melons, making us feel like we’re royal guests at Summertime’s fullest feast.    

 

Nurturing Your Garden: Tasks to Honor Leo’s Regal Presence

Leo’s arrival marks a time to enjoy the fruits of our labor. By now, the need for weeding has slowed, but there’s still much work to be done to keep nature’s gifts flowing. Here are a few astrology gardening tips to keep your Glenside garden thriving through August: 

• Harvest Time: Although it may be tempting to bask in the sun like a lion, don’t let your hard gardening work go to waste. Reap this year’s bounty to its fullest by harvesting fruits and vegetables at their peak and preserving all that you can’t consume. By harvesting the fruits of your labor, you will actually encourage your plants to keep producing, ensuring ample opportunities to practice Leo’s generosity by sharing your harvest with friends, family, and neighbors. 

• Essential Watering: As temperatures remain high and the sun’s gaze remains strong, don’t forget to provide your garden with life-nourishing water. Water preservation methods also become crucial to success, like mulching, watering in the morning, using drip irrigation, and targeted waterings close to the soil.  

• Outwit Pests: With so much delicious produce on offer, you’re not the only one interested in attending your garden’s banquet. Keep your cat’s eyes open for insects feeding off your success. Prune away infected plant material, pick away cabbage worms as soon as you see them, and proactively snuff out any pests before they spread.  

• New Plantings: Although it feels like summer has reached its pinnacle, there is still a long fall season ahead of us. Seize this opportunity to expand your harvest with new plantings of cool-season crops and add late-season blooming perennials to the mix so you can enjoy the luxury of late-summer and fall flowers. 

• Deadheading for More Blooms: Though your flowers may be spent, you can help them return to the spotlight with regular deadheading. Bring more regal luxury to your garden with this simple task. 

• The Art of Pruning: In the season of Leo, pruning will not be your main task in the garden as most pruning is best kept for cooler seasons, but you can continue to shape overgrown shrubs by trimming to maintain their elegance. Enjoy this time to really lean into pruning as an art form.

 

Plants that Roar: Embodying Leo’s Boldness and Strength

Plants that align with Leo’s powerful persona are those that exude boldness and warm, sunny colors. Look for these personal favorites next time you visit our garden center: 

• Sunflowers: Sunflowers are perhaps the quintessential flower that embodies Leo’s spirit. With their large, sunny faces that follow the sun throughout the day, sunflowers symbolize vitality, optimism, and strength. They stand tall and proud, commanding attention and radiating warmth in any garden setting.

• Echinacea: Also known as coneflowers, Echinacea species are robust perennials known for their striking, daisy-like flowers with prominent cone-shaped centers. These flowers come in shades of purple, pink, and white, and they attract pollinators with their nectar-rich blooms. Echinaceas symbolize resilience, healing, and endurance, qualities that resonate with Leo’s determination and fortitude.

• Red Hot Pokers: Red Hot Pokers, also known as torch lilies, produce striking flower spikes in shades of red, orange, and yellow. These flowers are tall and attention-grabbing, resembling fiery torches in the garden. Red Hot Pokers symbolize passion, energy, and enthusiasm, which resonate strongly with Leo’s fiery spirit and zest for life.

• Coreopsis: Coreopsis, also known as tickseed, are cheerful perennials with bright, daisy-like flowers that bloom profusely from summer into fall. These flowers come in shades of yellow, orange, and red, attracting pollinators with their abundant nectar. Coreopsis symbolizes cheerfulness, optimism, and a sunny disposition, traits that exude Leo’s positive outlook and vibrant energy.

 

• Black-eyed Susan: Black-eyed Susans are native wildflowers with golden yellow petals and dark brown centers. They bloom prolifically throughout the summer and into fall, attracting butterflies and bees to your garden. Black-eyed Susans symbolize encouragement, motivation, and inner strength, expressing Leo’s leadership and confidence.

 

Leo’s Weakness to Watch For in the Garden

Although Leo is an active persona, the lion also has a lazy side that can let your garden maintenance fall by the wayside. More than that, Leo quickly becomes bored with routine and mundane tasks. To overcome this weakness, use the power of Leo’s bold imagination to reframe these tasks. Rather than chores, view them as preparations for an exquisite banquet hosted for friends and neighbors, including the friendly insects who visit your yard. View the small tasks as the necessary preparations for the larger-than-life garden you’ve always imagined. 

 

Living and Gardening Like a Leo

For Leo, life is no trivial affair; it is the grandest adventure that can be imagined. Channel this inspiration into your garden and bask in the splendor given to us by the summer sun. Like a Leo, extend the generosity of your garden abundance to your community, praise yourself for the hard work and success you’ve accomplished this year, and expand your vision to realize your garden itself is a piece of a much larger life vision that you once realized. 

 

By embracing Leo’s horoscope, you invite courage, creativity, and a playful spirit into your Glenside gardening endeavors. For more astrological gardening tips, come visit our thriving local garden center in person!