- Spring garden preparation
- Winter garden preparation
Preparing your garden during the spring and autumn can help make sure it looks it best throughout the whole year and give your plants the best chance at surviving and thriving. Knowing whether to prune in autumn or spring will mean your plants will be rejuvenated for the next year while being protected from the harsh winters. Another big job for winter is leaf blowing and clearing.
Spring garden preparation includes:
- Replanting any bulbs or tubers stored over winter
- Plant summer flowering bulbs
- Pruning trees and shrubs
- Prune hardy evergreen hedges
- Prune winter flowering shrubs, after flowering
- Renovate overgrown deciduous hedges
- Lift and divide perennials
- Divide bulbs such as snowdrops, and plant those that need planting “in the green”
- Cut back deciduous grasses and remove dead grass from evergreen grasses
- Hoe weeds between shrubs and plants
- Dig out perennial weeds
- Sew hardy annuals, herbs and wild flowers
- Loosen soil and add organic material if required
- Renovate lawns, reseeding bare patches
- First mow of the year
- Patio and path maintenance
- Trim any remaining herbaceous perennials
- Leaf blowing and collection
- Prune bush and climbing roses
- Plant onions, and early potatoes
- Clean windows of greenhouse to maximise light
- Garden tidy
- Garden furniture clean
Autumn garden preparation includes
- Dig out bulbs and tubers to be stored over winter
- Protect any frost vulnerable plants
- Prune climbing roses
- Plant spring flowering bulbs
- Collect seed from perennials and hardy annuals
- Net ponds before leaf fall gets underway
- Clear fallen leaves, especially from ponds
- Cut back perennials that have died back, leave some for-winter interest and for wildlife
- Dig out any summer flowering annuals
- Plant hardy winter bedding
- Divide herbaceous perennials
- Trim hedges
- Clean greenhouse to prevent pests and diseases overwintering
- Renovate lawns
- Thorough weeding
- Fence maintenance
- Install or fill up bird feeders
Let us sort out your garden while you stay warm and cozy inside.