February — Garden Maintenance

Bring budded flowering branches inside to force into early Spring color.

Treat your pruned roses to guard against fungal disease and insect damage.

Fertilize your roses and blueberries around the drip line with 1/2 cup Epsom salts and 1/2 cup alfalfa meal or pellets. This promotes budding and produces more canes for fruit and flowers.

Hard prune your tea and shrub roses. Selective pruning is only needed on climbers and ramblers but best done after flowering has finished in late spring.

Repair winter damage to trees and shrubs.