Top Tip
Winter is the perfect time for planting “bare-rooted“ deciduous trees and shrubs – plants without soil on the roots. As deciduous plants lose their leaves in autumn, they enter a dormant state and can be kept without soil until spring. This is an ideal way to purchase large plants as they are light and easy to handle. Just make sure you keep their roots moist and don’t leave bare roots out in the sun while digging the hole.
You'll have to wait until spring to see your deciduous plants grow, but winter gardens don’t have to be dull - they can be full of flowers. Choose from camellias, cinerarias, daffodils, daphnes, gordonia, hardenbergia, hebe, hellebores, jonquils, luculia, magnolia, orchids, pansies, poinsettia, polyanthus, primulas, prunus, pyrostegia, wallflowers, wattles and many more. Boost blooming of annuals, perennials and bulbs with Miracle-Gro® All Purpose Plant Food.
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Was your garden hard to
maintain over the hot dry summer? |
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Don't just replace plants that have died or struggled with drought-tolerant alternatives. Try our ideas and
drought-proof your garden for good.
 Try Hydro-zoning: moving special plants with higher water needs into the one bed, where you can care for them more easily.
Container gardens using collections of water-well pots are easy to maintain with saved kitchen and shower water.
Encourage winter moisture to seep deeply into the soil by using a soil wetting agent such as Hydraflo2® Wetting Agent. Seal in moisture with mulch in early spring.
Assess where water flows in the garden. You may be able to make shallow surface channels to direct the rainwater to more useful places, or use buried agricultural piping to channel and diffuse water.
Consider a water tank or greywater system - act now as waiting lists are long. |
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