IN THE GARDEN


with Alan Edmondson of Bowercot Garden Design


February / March


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 February is a good month for planng new roses.


If you have not yet died up the mixed border, then do it this month. Cut the old growth out right to the base.


Overcrowded clumps of snowdrops should be lied, divided and replanted, once the flowers are over.


Buy plump, healthy lily bulbs and plant if the weather is mild.


If moss is prevalent in the lawn, examine underlying causes – poor drainage, poor soil ferlity and too much shade.


In the vegetable garden, parsnip, broad bean and early peas can be sown.


In a heated greenhouse, you can sow seed of celery, leek, leuce, onions and early cauliflower to give plants for transplanng out of doors later.


If you have a clayey soil, break it down to a workable lth before clods become brick hard.


Fill in any gaps in the herbaceous border with young plants.


It is a good me to divide border perennials such as delphiniums, aslbe, day lilies and phlox. Discard the central piece, if it is woody and replant the outer pieces.


Winter flowering shrubs, such as Hamamelis, Chiomanthus and Lonicera x purpusii, do not require pruning, unless it is necessary to promote new branching shoot growth.


There is sll me to plant bare rooted apples and pears, but leave them unpruned and do not let them bear fruit in their first year. Early potatoes can be planted later in the month.


Sow parsley thinly on good well drained soil. Thin plants well, up to nine inches apart.


Alan Edmondson of Bowercot Garden Design, Lymington is a regular contributor to BBC Radio Solent’s ‘The Good Life’


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