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December Gardening Tasks January Gardening Tasks February Gardening Tasks Bulbs for Indoor Bloom Color in the Winter Garden Garden Maintenance Design a Winter Garden

Prune wisteria vines, crape myrtles, and rose bushes during winter. Plant bare-root trees and shrubs. Transplant evergreen and deciduous shrubs during the winter months while they are dormant. Prune summer blooming shrubs and ornamental vines. Plant new roses in early winter. Divide early spring blooming bulbs. Calla lilies, paperwhites, and amaryllis will bloom indoors during winter. Mid to late February is the time to ferilize shrubs and evergreens. Start petunia, ageratum, and vinca seeds indoors in late winter. January is the best time to fertilize lilacs and primrose. Plant heather and other winter flowering shrubs in January.

Flowering and non-flowering plants,
trees, and shrubs for winter garden interest:

Forsythia Honeysuckle Oregon Grape Pansy Heather Blue Lilyturf Wintercreeper Primrose

English Ivy Jasmine Weeping Cherry Camellia Winterberry English Holly Winter Jewel Juniper

Daphne Winter Fir Aconite Boxwood White Pine Mugo Pine Cotoneaster Witch Hazel

Cut forsythia branches and bring indoors in late winter, place in water for early bloom. Plant lilies during the month of February. Add extra pinebark mulch to protect the tender new growth of spring blooming bulbs in late January. December is a good month to take hardwood cuttings, and remove dead growth from azaleas, rhododendron, and other evergreens.

Recommended Gardening Books
Farmer's Almanac Monthly Guides
Ornamental Grasses
Pruning Landscape Plants
3 P's of Winter Gardening
Preparing for Spring






If we had no winter, spring would not be so pleasant.
~D.S. West

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