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January 2010
The end of January can be a gloomy time. With short, cold days, bitterly cold this year, and with the garden looking extremely limp and battered after the arctic weather of recent weeks. But there are some bright, sunny days at this time. And the days really are getting longer, noticeably so at the end of month. On one of these bright, crisp days have a look round the garden. Note the fat buds on the rhododendrons. Are the camellias already starting to open? And little green spears showing through the ground where we planted tulips and narcissus last autumn?
If you are lucky enough to have a pile of dead logs and branches hidden behind shrubs, or behind the compost heap, move one or two logs, and see the inhabitants stir themselves slowly and creep away to find new hiding places. If you don’t have a log pile, make one now. It’s the right time to cut back and prune many trees and shrubs now, so tell the gardeners to save the thicker wood, and pile it in a quiet corner of the garden. Or build a bug house. Collect an old pallet or two, lay them flat, one on top of the other, and fill the spaces with old tiles, sticks, hollow stems (like bamboo or knotweed) etc. Cover them with paving slabs or tiles, to keep the rain off.
Don’t forget it is the perfect time to plant trees, shrubs and climbers. They are dormant at this time of year, and will have many weeks to grow fresh root hairs, before the new spring leaves start to make demands on the roots for water.
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