Job list for January to keep your garden tip top

  • As long as the ground is not frozen hedging, roses and fruit trees can be planted, both bare root and potted.
  • Establish new colonies of snowdrops and hellebores, by buying plants in flower, so you can choose the prettiest blooms and we have plenty in stock at the Badgers Hill garden Centre.
  • Clear away soggy, collapsed stems of perennials and compost them
  • Take hardwood cuttings from deciduous shrubs.
  • Remove and bin hellebore foliage marked with black blotches, to limit the spread of leaf spot disease
  • Press mistletoe berries into the bark of apple trees to establish your own mistletoe plants
  • Check that smaller plants and alpinesdon't become smothered by fallen leaves and other wind-blown debris
  • Deadhead winter pansies and other bedding regularly, and remove any foliage affected by downy mildew. We still have plenty in stock to add winter colour to your garden.
  • Move deciduous shrubs that are in the wrong place to more suitable sites
  • Continue pruning climbing rose, while they are dormant.
  • MOST OF ALL ENJOY BEING IN THE FRESH AIR AND ENJOY YOUR GARDEN EVEN IN THE COLD!!