GET PRUNING
While it may seem counter-intuitive to cut your plants back, it’s a lot like trimming your hair: it sorts out all of those untidy bits and helps to encourage more flowers, which makes for a glorious show of growth later on. Tackle evergreen shrubs, camellia, buddleja, forsythia and clim# roses to ensure they grow back better and stronger.
DIVIDE PERENNIALS
‘You can get more plants for free by lifting and dividing clump-forming perennials, such as hostas and daylilies, and replanting them where you’d like them to grow,’ explains Morris Hankinson, director of Hopes Grove Nurseries. To do this, gently lift your perennials from the ground, shake off excess soil and pull them apart gently at the roots. ‘This should produce small clumps for replanting,’ says Morris.
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