Plants in Flower
What to Fertilize
What to Plant
What to Prune
Pest Outlook
Lawn Care
Propagation
Specific Chores
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- Wintersweet, Breath-of-Spring (Winter Honeysuckle), Lenten-Rose (Helleborus), Trailing Arbutus, Crocus, Violets, and Japanese Flowering Apricot
What to Fertilize
- Shade trees can be fertilized.
- Fertilize emerging spring flowering bulbs.
- Spread wood ashes around the vegetable garden, flowering bulb beds and non-acid loving plants if the pH is below 6.0.
What to Plant
- First week in February start broccoli, cabbage, and cauliflower plants inside your home.
- Plant English peas, onions, Irish potatoes, radishes, rutabagas, spinach, kale, turnips, and carrots the last week of February.
- Plant asparagus crowns when soil is dry enough to work.
What to Prune
- Prune bunch grape vines and fruit trees.
- Prune summer flowering shrubs such as butterfly bush, crape myrtle, peegee hydrangea, and rose of sharon.
- Trim ornamental grasses like liriope, mondo grass, and pampas grass.
- Overgrown shrubs can be severely pruned.
Pest Outlook
- Peach and nectarine trees need to be sprayed with a fungicide to prevent leaf curl.
- Spray all fruit trees with dormant oil to help eliminate some insects.
Lawn Care
- Cool season lawns like tall fescue should be fertilized. Follow soil test results.
- Control wild onion in your lawn with spot sprays of a recommended herbicide.
Propagation
- Divide perennials like daylily and shasta daisy when the ground is dry enough.
- Hardwood cuttings of many landscape plants like Crape Myrtle, Flowering Quince, forsythia, hydrangea, juniper, spirea, and weigela can be taken this month.
Specific Chores
- Clean out bluebird boxes.
- Order flowers for your sweetheart - Happy Valentine's Day!
- Develop a vegetable and landscape plan for your home grounds.
- Order strawberry & blueberry plants.
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