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Tracey Cole

Revive your January Garden

Refresh your garden for the New Year with pruning, planting, and pest control tips to keep your outdoor space vibrant, colorful, and thriving through Autumn.

Refresh Your Garden After the Festive Season

It’s the New Year and the garden can be looking tired and a bit neglected after the Xmas festivities and a long, hot season, so a few tasks now to renew, refresh and invigorate your outside space will keep it looking good through to Autumn.

Revitalize Plants and Borders

Getting the shears out to clear dead stems, excess growth and deadhead blooms may seem drastic but is an easier, neater and speedier way to deal with many-flowered perennials and annuals rather than individual deadheading. Stake tired, droopy taller plants like Delphiniums and Penstemons, plus any other tall plants that are wilting. This will immediately perk up flower borders.

Boosting Color and Controlling Pests

Tidy border edges by filling gaps in the front of the border with a few low-growing plants to add depth and colour. Erigeron, Dianthus, Heucheras, Sedums, Lavender and Agastache, with its spikes of blue flowers, much loved by butterflies. 

Add quick-maturing annuals like Marigolds, Salvias, Gazanias, Cosmos and Echinacea, with a few coloured grasses to ramp up the colour and look stunning. Water well after planting and spread plenty of mulch on the soil to retain moisture. 

Keep checking for bugs like aphids and red spider mite which need to be dealt with constantly. Always use a home-made organic spray, and try to encourage wildlife to the garden to help keep these bugs at bay.

Encourage Growth for the Coming Seasons

Cut back, lift and divide clumps of Agapanthus, Dietes and Penstemon. Replant around the border in freshly composted soil. Lightly fertilise the plant to encourage flowers in the Autumn. Summer-flowering evergreen shrubs will look better for a light pruning as soon as the flowers fade to enable the shrub to store energy for the next seasons flowering. 

All flower borders and vegetable plots will benefit from some added fertiliser now, not forgetting a liquid fertiliser for containers and hanging baskets every 4 weeks.

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