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Planting

• Plant roses, shrubs and deciduous trees.
• Plant kohlrabi, carrot, leeks, sweet potato, cabbage.
• Choose winter-flowering shrubs to add winter colour. Camellia, daphne, magnolia and wattle bloom in winter.
• Plant seedlings of Iceland poppy, cineraria, calendula, pansy.
• Plant bare-rooted deciduous trees and shrubs including roses.

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Fertilising

• Fertilise winter flowering bulbs such as jonquils with Miracle-Gro® All Purpose Plant Food when buds first appear. Continue to fertilise all bulbs after flowering is complete to ensure good flowering next year.
• Fertilise leafy winter vegetables with Miracle-Gro® All Purpose Plant Food

Pruning

• Cut back herbaceous perennials such as wind flowers, penstemon, catmint, bergamot, canna.
• Prune deciduous trees and shrubs such as maple, ash, elm if required. Prune spring-flowering deciduous shrubs eg weigela, flowering quince, forsythia after flowering.
• Prune roses in mid-to-late July.

Lawncare

Treat bindii in lawns as soon as seedlings appear, usually in August, with Scotts® Lawn Builder™ with Weedkill

Controlling garden pests

Protect broccoli from aphids with Defender™ Pyrethrum Insect Spray

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