When preparing your garden for winter, one of the most important tasks is to winterize your roses. They’re fragile and have a tendency to suffer during long cold winters.
Tips On Winterizing Roses
On November - 21 - 2009
End Of Season Garden Check List
On November - 20 - 2009
Most gardens, by November or December are ready to be put to bed until spring. There are a few tasks you can do now, before the winter, to keep your garden healthy, as well as making spring maintenance easier. Here is a list of 10 such tasks.
1. Cut back you perennial garden to the ground. Perennials return year after year and removing this years growth will allow the garden to start fresh next spring.
Preparing Perennial Gardens For Winter
On November - 19 - 2009
Preparing a perennial garden for winter is one of the last projects of the gardening season. Some fall gardening tasks are done for aesthetic reasons while others are done for health of the garden. The following are some important gardening projects which will improve the health of your perennial garden and save you time in the spring.
Protecting Your Shrubs In Winter
On November - 19 - 2009
Each fall I suggest to many of my customers the idea of protecting garden shrubs from the harshness of winter. If the conditions are right (such as in a season which is described below) winter can devastate some shrubs. Evergreens such as Japanese holly and rhododendron are especially susceptible to the drying winter winds. Since evergreens don’t lose their leaves wind can suck the moisture out from the plant and dehydrate them sending them into permanent dormancy.
deadheading rhododendrons…
On November - 18 - 2009
allows the plant to spending its energy on creating numerous buds for the following spring.
Restoring Flower Gardens
On November - 16 - 2009
Neglected flower gardens almost always suffer from weed infestation, poor soil quality and over grown perennials. Over time they become a tangled mess of weeds and perennials. These gardens, however, can be restored and brought back to life.
Aerating compacted garden soil…
On November - 16 - 2009
allows water and nutrients to reach a plant’s deep roots.
