Monthly Hot Tips for Your Garden!

Monthly Hot Tips
for Your Garden!

March
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All Zones:

Repot Swedish ivy and other houseplants and try your hand at rooting cuttings: Just stick them in a pot of soil and keep moist.
Cut back ornamental grasses with hand pruners or a metal-blade trimmer.
Plan an all-white moonlight garden.
Divide asters, Siberian iris and other perennials when weather permits.
Check out easy-to-install garden pools at a garden center.
Tidy up perennial beds, cutting back dead stems to 2 to 3 inches above ground level.
Find space for a pair of sweet cherry trees.
Listen for birdsong as the courtship season begins.

Zones 9-10 (Santa Barbara and surrounding areas):

Snuggle summer-blooming bulbs like tigridia and alliums into the perennial garden.
Scatter seeds of annual love-in-a-mist, linaria, and fragrant mignonette in unexpected places.
Plant vivid orange and red montbretia for summer hummingbirds.
Top-dress perennials and roses with as much compost as you can spare.
Multiply your heaths and heathers by covering a section of branch with soil; it'll root even faster if you scrape off a small strip of bark with a pocketknife.
Prune out deadwood from hydrangeas.
Indulge yourself with a trip to the best nursery within a day's driving distance.