STIHL January Garden Guide with Jane Moore | January Gardening Jobs | STIHL GB
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- Опубликовано: 1 янв 2024
- We’re back with the latest instalment of the STIHL garden guide! This month, Jane Moore showcases jobs to do in your garden in January.
🔶 Winter Plants
Bulbs and plants like snowdrops are pushing their way through the ground now we’re into the New Year, and they will be flowering before too long. But your garden can always do with a bit more colour and excitement. There are some fabulous winter plants that are worth a spot in every garden - and some will do well in a plant pot for a few years too. Colourful stems of Dogwoods are great - choose from bright scarlet red varieties, soft yellow or a fiery one like ‘Cardinal’.
🔶 Winter Colours and Scents
Acers like Sango-Kaku have brilliant winter stems. These are more of an investment plant, but you do get a lot of loveliness for your money, and they look great in a plant pot or in the border too.
Skimmias are great in pots and window boxes too. They’re almost indestructible and go on flowering for ages so, although they aren’t the most exciting plants, they earn their keep in the winter months. It’s the winter scents that are most appreciated as these plants are so fragrant it’s an aromatherapy lift. They’re also great for any early flying bees and other insects which is exactly why they are so scented - so their flowers can be smelt a mile away by pollinating insects.
A good choice for a low maintenance garden is a winter flowering Mahonia like Wintersweet. These are easy, evergreen shrubs with a touch of the Japanese garden about them. For a bigger space pick one of the shrubby honeysuckles like Lonicera fragrantissima. Or you could go for a winter flowering Viburnum like Dawn or Charles Lamont.
🔶 Winter Flower Maintenance
Winter flowers need maintenance just like summer ones. It’s vital to keep deadheading your Pansies and Violas through the winter to keep them flowering. It’s easy enough to pinch off the little seedpods every week or so.
And don’t forget to water potted plants if the weather is dry too. It’s so easy to think everything is wet and damp in the winter but sometimes these months can be surprisingly dry. Added to that, if the plants have very dense foliage then it’s hard for rain to penetrate.
🔶 Planting in Winter
There are also plenty of flowers that you can plant in the ground now. Smaller plants like Cyclamen and Hellebores are perfect for brightening up those odd, dull spots in the garden, making a great understorey planting for shrubs and trees, while pots of bulbs are handy for popping into any gaps that you might have.
A popular job in January is to remove the old hellebore leaves. It always looks a bit harsh doing this, but the old leaves are tired and spotty and hide the beauty of the emerging hellebore flowers. A bit of snipping now and these beautiful flowers will look their best in February and March.
🔶 Composting
Compost is such a hot topic and it’s one that gardeners can chat about for hours, whether that’s ready-made compost in bags, or how you set about making your own. Let’s start with bagged, shop bought compost. There are so many varieties available that it’s tricky to know where to start.
Bagged peat-free compost is much better than it used to be - it used to be prone to drying out, which wasn’t very good for plants and seedlings. Take a good look at the compost and try a few before you settle on a brand.
John Innes compost is very stable and useful for longer term planting as they retain their structure well and maintain a steady level of nutrient and water content. If you’re not sure what you need, then talk to the staff at your local garden centre.
Of course, making your own compost is a great option too and there are some golden rules for DIY compost.
🔶 Tips for Making Your Own Compost:
- Compost almost everything, including bedding plants, perennial stems, grass and even a few leaves but don’t compost nasty perennial weeds.
- Chop up everything into bitesize pieces as this will help them to rot down more quickly.
- Try to add things in layers like a trifle.
- Where possible, don’t compost food waste either - you want a wormery for that.
- Turn your compost heap, it helps to speed up the decomposition process - but be careful, especially in the winter, as your compost heap could be home to frogs, toads and even mice!
Making your own compost does take some time and effort but it’s by far the best stuff and is a brilliant way of recycling your garden waste.
🔶 Mulching Plants
As well as using compost for sowing and growing, it makes a great mulch for the garden.
That’s it for this month, hopefully you’ve enjoyed these January projects and don’t forget to subscribe to the STIHL GB RUclips channel for more ideas, hints and tips.
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January 2023 :
an unmarked
( unknown)
cutting bloomed :
it was a Lonicera
Fragrantissima:
Gorgeous scent.
A lovely surprise.
Must get the
Viburnums next.
Winter is when
we need to see
flowers most.
Also a very reliable
shrub I like for a bright
splash of colour ,
all year round is
Variegated
Euonymous : I have
green and yellow.
Easy to propagate
by cuttings.😊👍.
🇬🇧😊🌹🥀🌹🌿🇬🇧
What a lucky surprise! And thanks for the suggestion of Euonymous too! Thanks, STIHL GB
Wish you would do a weekly vlog!
Thank you Deb 🥰
Hi Jane ! Hope you’re doing great ❤ can I use the winter sowing method here in the UK ( London) ? Thank you
Thank you 🙂! Winter is a great time for planting shrubs and trees especially, but also potted bulbs and herbaceous plants too. It's not a great time for sowing but there are a few things you could get started indoors, especially if you have a little propagator. Things like Sweet peas, robust salads, herbs and so on can all be started off, and it's not too early to get first early potatoes chitting either - I have done a video on this previously, but please don't ask me which one!
@@janemoore2154don't worry, we're on it! @mumof4132 you can find Jane's section on chitting potatoes in the Winter Garden Guide here: ruclips.net/video/wO2DOcH2PGs/видео.html
Thanks very much, STIHL GB