What to do in the garden in January / February.
Start chitting early potatoes by laying tubes in a tray or egg cartons in a cool, light but frost free place.
Complete winter digging of new vegetable plots.
Hard prune shrubs such as Spiraea and potantilla every three years to keep compact.
Sow broad beans, lettuce, radishes salad onions and spinach under cover.
Winter prune bush or tree apples and pears and thin out fruiting spurs.
Check tree ties and Rabbit guards.
Inspect stored bulbs, corms or tubes such as Dahlia and Canna regularly, Discarding any with rot.
Treat apple trees with signs of canker.
Put seamungus around your plants. Suitable for all year round application on all plants. Helps your plants get through the upcoming harsh conditions.
Now is the ideal time to put in your hedging.
Keep feeding the birds throughout the Spring.
Put in your Spring colour now. Such as primoses, Viola's and Winter flowering pansy.
Whats looking good now
Skimmia
The Skimmia is an evergreen, very hardy, ornamental shrub, which owing to the fact that it carries beautiful flower buds for a long period in the Winter months, impacts a special atmosphere to your garden during this period.
Heather
Very hardy. Very colourful and low growing. Excellent for pots for Winter colour.
Acorus gramineus Ogen.
Japenese rush. A semi everygreen grass. With glossy, narrow, variegated leavesstriped with pale green and cream. Max hieght 20cm max spraed 15cm. Full sun hardy.
Heuchera "Palace Purple"
Coral bells. A mound of red leaves. Large panicles of pink flowers in early Summer. Flowers June to July
Cyclamen
Great for Winter colour in pots or ground.
Nandina Domestica
Evergreen plant. Leaves red to reddish purple when young and in Winter. White flowers in Summer. Followed by long lasting, spherical, bright red fruit.
Mahonia x media "Charity"
An eract shrub with dark green leaves, sharply toothed. Bright yellow fargrant flowers in dense clusters from late Autumn to late Winter. Max height 5m max spread 4m. Flowers November to Febaury. Full sun / patial shade.
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