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Winter Bites it's hard to muster enthusiasm to go into the garden when the cold weather bites, it helps if you have eye catching features to draw you outside ..... |
Lonicera
Fragrantissima
happy plants such as lonicera fragrantissima is an excellent choice for planting close to gates, paths where the sweet fragrence can be enjoyed |
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Winter Flowering Honeysuckle lonicera purpusii winter beauty delivers a strong perfume right through until spring, take a few flowered stems inside use as a natural air freshener ..... |
Winter
Box
use fragrant ground hugging plants such as winter box to line paths, the pure white flowers smell of vanilla, flowers december to march |
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Frost Sensitive Plants find a sheltered spot and grow winter sweet this large flowering shrub produces pale waxy yellow flowers, spicy scent december to march ..... |
Winter
Flowering Viburnum
this ones flowers from december through to march viburnum x bodnantenes dawn, has clusters of almond pink blooms giving off a hyacinth fragrance |
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Witch Hazel will make a small shrubby tree with spreading zig zag branches its slow growing plant it in a pot where its strong spicy scent can be enjoyed ..... |
Clematis
Cirrhosa
ideal for framing doors and windows it is lightly scented creamy yellow flowers look great against a background of ferns or dark green foliage |
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Fragrant Mahonia fragrant mahonia will make the drabbest corner of the garden more appealing, these shade loving plants are at their best flowering during winter ..... |
Feed
The Animals
hedgehogs and badgers can struggle at this time of year, never give hedgehogs bread or milk, cat food a little moistened muesli or chopped digestive |
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Ponds with wildlife lying low and pond plants and weeds fairly dormant this is a perfect time to design and build a new pond ready for the spring ..... |
Planting
now is a great time to plant deciduous trees and shrubs if you intend to do this then make sure you plant a good mix of native plants |
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Log Piles make log piles from twigs, prunings and felled trees this provides shelter for wildlife and also deters creepy crawlies wandering into your home ..... |
Kids
Go Green
children love helping get them in the garden to collect evergreen sprigs it will keep them amused they can make evergreen christmas decorations |
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Cold Protection in northern and exposed districts protect tender evergreens such as calliemon and pittiosporum wrap in fleece and or straw ..... |
Christmas
Trees
stop premature needle drop by choosing a pine or fir tree, not spruce, dont put the tree near a heat scource as this will cause needle drop too |
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Schlumbergera "Christmas Cacti" if your christmas cactus has failed to produce flower buds then the temperature of the room is to high it should be about 18 c and in complete dark at night ..... |
Heaters
regularly check your greenhouse heater is in good working order to avoid the disaster of tender plants getting chilled also check your thermostat works |
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Pond Heater invest in a pond heater to stop the water freezing especially if you have fish in it, otherwise place an inflatable ball in the water it works ..... |
Deadheading
winter flowering tubs add a real splash of colour at this drab time of year, deadhead them on a regular basis to prolong the flowering period |
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Herons keep an eye out for herons standing near your pond at this sparce time of year they will have your fish in the blink of an eye ..... |
Mud
flowering plants such as violas and hellebores can look awful when heavy rain splashes compost onto flowers bark or gravel mulch will stop it |
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