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Ornamental cabbage and kale provide excellent winter color for the landscape.

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Potted tulip
Decorate your home with potted bulbs such as tulips.

February is the Month to:

Enjoy the beauty of winter gardens
Start seeded flowers such as begonias and petunias
Begin feeding houseplants towards the end of the month
Plan the spring and summer garden
Begin watering your potted forced bulbs
Treat yourself to a blooming azalea, hyacinth, or potted bulb
Cut back geraniums, hibiscus, and other houseplants for repotting in March
Prune forsythia, pussy willow, quince, etc. for forcing indoors

Phaleanopsis orchid in bloom
Orchids winter houseplants

February Odds and Ends
Force branches of forsythia, pussy willow, apple, spirea, and dogwood for indoor bloom. They will bloom in about 3 weeks.

Plant and transplant perennials.

Protect your landscape from hungry deer.

Re-pot root bound houseplants to a larger pot.

Decorate your home with blooming houseplants like Pocketbook Plant, Kalanchoe, Daffodils, Tulips, bromeliad, Cyclamen.

Birdbaths provide winter water for birds

Continue feeding and providing water for birds

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Deer Resistant Plants

Attract Birds to the Garden

Add Fragrance to the Garden

Plan a Rock Garden

Design Your Landscape

Amaryllis in bloom
It's great fun to watch your Amaryllis bulbs grow throughout the Winter. Read more about how to care for Amaryllis.

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