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I'm getting the gardening bug very badly. Here in Colorado, we often have wonderful warm winter days in the 40s and 50s, which are perfect for gardening, and allows one to work outside quite often in the winter.
I usually wait until spring to clear most of the old growth on my plants I like the winter interest and have found the old growth helps keep the mulch around the plants-by mulch I mean leaves, pine needles, grass clippings, etc, which I constantly spread year round.
Today, I did clear a few beds however, which was nice. How about most of you, do you clear your perennial growth in the fall or the spring?
This is the first year for me in this house and I didn't know what to do in the Fall. Clear or spread? So I spread pine needles all around the Iris, the new shrubs, the Peonies, and some other stuff. Now I am too anxious to get outside and I am clearing it away ! Am also moving Iris and getting rid of one whole bed. Thinking seriously of what I want to do in spring. The days are warmish here too, so why not?
It was indeed a beautiful gardening day in AZ. I admit I was outside in the garden today too. I do my perennial growth trimming/pruning in early March, weather-permitting. Except the rose bushes, which is a January chore for sure. Frost is still a possibility, so I tend to wait until March to start other pruning, and the bougainvillea gets done last of all. My parents had a beautiful peony plant at the home where I grew up in Illinois -- I used to enjoy helping out and cutting it back every spring - wish I could grow one here, but it is too warm, and we do have other plants that work well down here in Phoenix.
It has been such a warm winter here that my bulbs are coming up. In January!!! It is way too early.
I have the fever too. I resisted the urge to rake off the dead daylilly leaves for just a bit longer, since we’ve had a very cold winter this year. I have pulled some weeds and sprayed a bit of roundup.
Here in GA, the last frost date is around St Patrick’s Day, so it won’t be long until it’s safe. It’s funny how, every time the sun comes out and the temp goes over 50, everyone is out in their yard pruning something.
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