Helpful Info | Monthly To-Do List | December

December print

• Purchase garden tool for Christmas gift
• Protect new plants from wind
• Plants blooming: sasanqua camelias
• Protect tender container plants water if necessary
• Make holiday decorations from your garden
• Prune conifers
• Feed the birds
• Turn compost pile
• Call landscape designer for yard improvements
• Have soil test done to determine health of soil
• Take a walk in your yard and neighborhood to enjoy nature
• Last chance! Plant bulbs for spring
• Dormant spray fruit trees
• Water plants underneath wide eaves of house
• Check house plants for insects
• If dry water plants before freezing weather
• Feed the birds
• Reapply or redistribute mulches around tender plants
• Call landscape designer for spring plans
• Plant winter pansies
• Plant fruit and shade trees
• Use copper fungicide on moss & lichen on trees & shrubs
• Plant Beautyberry for spectacular color