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GARDENING DIARY FOR FEBRUARY & MARCH with Avon Mill


In the Garden


The countryside and our gardens are waking up and we’re starting to see the first signs of spring. If you like the outdoors, nature and love to nur- ture and grow we are the place for you. Down at Avon Mill... our café is cosy, the walks down the valley are crisp, and the Garden Centre is now full of beautiful plants, ready for you to get creative in your garden. We would love to be the place that you choose to meet with friends, browse, shop, and get inspired!


THINGS TO DO THIS MONTH In your garden ..


✿ Continue to plant shrubs, trees, roses, hedging and herbaceous plants – provided that the ground is not frozen or waterlogged.


✿ Prune winter flowering shrubs once they have finished flowering. ✿ Prune hardy evergreen hedges ✿ Prune wisteria side shoots back to 3 buds


✿ Prune apple & pear trees (but not wall-trained specimens which are better pruned in the summer)


✿ Divide clumps of snowdrops while they are ‘in the green’


✿ Summer flowering bulbs & tubers like Dahlias, Lilies and Gladioli are now in the garden centre


✿ Sow sweet peas and hardy annuals if you didn’t do this in the autumn (or buy plants from the garden centre later on!)


✿ Cut back grasses and other perennials which were left for winter interest and divide clumps that you want to propagate or have become too big for the space.


✿ Last but not least, keep feeding (and providing water for) the birds.


In the veg plot ...


Plan your crop rotations for the coming season, prepare seed beds and chit your potato tubers


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