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Well, here it is January, so check out the tips for the month below:
This is usually the coldest month of the year. Apart from the latter part of December the weather has been cool and sharp.
Conditions are frustrating for the gardener with many jobs left over from December waiting to be done. If you have made new beds go ahead and plant them out as shrubs from your local garden centre are hardened off and will be ok for planting. In severe frost protect your shrubs with garden fleece which is also available from your local centre and if snow arrives make sure and brush it of your shrubs as it can damage the foliage. With our climate you never know!!
This month is often thought of as a completely colourless, but there are quite a number of plants in bloom i.e.
Winter flowering jasminum with its brilliant yellow flowers
Gaultheria with full red berries
Viburnum tinus and skimmia rubella with red buds opening up into white flowers
You also have (Erica) heathers in full colour and polyanthus.
Snowdrops and dwarf narcissi have started too appeared in many gardens and iris opens its lilac blooms throughout the winter months.
More colour is provided by the bark of some trees and shrubs, none more eye catching than the brilliant crimson young shoots of dog wood (cornus).
Craigville garden centre & coffee shop
Sligo rd
Enniskillen
Tel: 028 66326004
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