January

Things to do:

• Protect vulnerable plants from bad weather such as frosts

• Cut off Helleborus niger leaves to reveal flower and prevent hellebore black spot disease.

• Hoe off any germinating weeds in milder conditions

• If soils are dry enough and not frozen now is a great time to dig over borders for the spring.

• Take hardwood cuttings from deciduous trees and shrubs to propagate.

• Plant deciduous bare root hedging

• Plant bareroot trees and shrubs including Roses

• Sow summer bedding in greenhouses

• Winter pruning of trees (Dead, Diseased, Crossing)

• Regenerative pruning of specific shrubs (non spring flowering)

• Watch for any storm damage on trees and shrubs