Christmas is nearly here so time to to get festive with blooms from the garden and complete those December gardening jobs to ensure your garden is Spring ready.
Make a Christmas wreath
Conifer foliage, eucalyptus, holly and flowering and berried evergreen shrubs make perfect Christmas wreath materials. What better welcome to your home than a colourful, textural wreath?
2. Prune climbing roses
Now is the time to prune climbing roses. Remove dead, diseased and damaged stems and cut back any flowered stem by 2/3rds. Congested plants can be renovated by cutting back older stems to the ground.
3. Clear debris from ponds
Clear any fallen leaves and debris from ponds, leaving on the site to allow any pond life to escape. This will help water health going into the Winter.
4. Prune apple and pear trees
Apples and pears grown in open ground can be pruned now until the beginning of March. See the RHS advice here.
5. Prune Birches and Acers now (if not done earlier)
Birch and Acers can be prone to bleeding if pruned too late in the Winter. Prune before Christmas to help avoid this happening.
Hope everyone has a lovely Christmas and New Year. I'll be back in January with more 'jobs for the garden 2024'.