91热爆

The spring bulbs are pushing their away above the soil surface as these hardy little bundles of energy are desperate to get to get some sunlight into their developing leaves.聽

The cover of last autums leaves will give them a little protection from frosts and pretty soon, the gardens and lawns will be filled with great drifts of colour as Snowdrops and Crocus cover the dreary ground bringing the garden to life.

Daffodils will soon follow and Tulips, as always, will be that bit later, choosing to wait for longer daylight hours and a respite from the cold. If you missed planting bulbs in the autumn, then fairly soon, the garden centres will be selling bulbs in pots already in flower and these can be purchased and planted into pots and troughs or can be planted into the open ground giving lots of fresh spring colour. They can be left in their growing positions once the flowers have faded and will come up year after year if fed and mulched, making flowering bulbs purchased now, great value for money.

If you look at local gardens you will be amazed at the colour to be found as a result of the mild winter so far. The best shrubs being Lonicera Fragantisima, the shrub Honeysuckle with its light yellow trumpets, Garrya Eliptica, the Tassle Bush with long catkins and Viburnham Bodnantense, the best variety in my opinion being "Dawn" with its winderful pink umbells of colour and sweet perfume.

Dig over new borders and vegetable patches allowing the weather to break up large clumps of soil. Compost or well rotted manure should be dug in at this stage and some sharp sand added to heavy soils and then be left for at least six weeks to break down when you can break up the surface with a garden fork and prepare for seed sowing and planting at the beginning of March.

Happy Gardening