How many times this winter have you heard someone say “I haven’t seen a winter like this since I was a kid” or listened to the meteorologists predict “record breaking snow, record breaking cold and record breaking snow cover”? It sounds like a broken record that needs to be thrown out!
The thought of trading the snow blower for the lawn mower has never sounded better. Everyone is ready for a change and ready for spring! Are you anxious to sit out on your patio, take a walk through your garden or relax under a tree and enjoy a sunny afternoon? Would you like a new patio, garden or water feature or maybe a new outdoor kitchen or fireplace? With spring just around the corner, it is a great time to start planning, designing, and scheduling to enhance your outdoor living space.
Here are a few winter garden tips for February:
- On one of those occasional nice days in winter, take a walk and see what’s happening in your garden.
- Check the base of woody plants for evidence of chewing. Rabbits especially love Burning Bush.
- Ice and snow can damage shrubs, trees and evergreens. This is a great time to see the structure of trees or shrubs and prune out crossing branches, suckers, and damaged limbs.
- Cut a branch from your forsythia, dogwood, or crabapple and place in a bucket of warm water, recut the stems to enhance water absorption. Than sit back and let nature take over. In a few days the branches should produce flowers.
- Subscribe to a new garden magazine, contact your local garden club for a list of upcoming programs and consult with your Landscape Architect to get on the schedule for a spring consultation.
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Content provided by James Noelck, Registered Landscape Architect,
Perennial Gardens by Linda Grieve
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Be sure to stop by Perennial Gardens booth at the Des Moines Home and Garden Show February 11 – 14.
