February Garden Maintenance Tips from Paxman’s Expert

Stella Giwisser, our Assistant Project Manager responsible for Grounds Maintenance at Paxman Landscapes offers a few more seasonal tips to help you keep your garden in check.  Her team maintains open spaces in commercial and domestic gardens across Yorkshire and the UK.  First-class maintenance for first-class landscapes.

Over to you, Stella for your February Garden Tips!

Now that Spring is in sight, the days are becoming longer and temperatures will (hopefully) increase.  This is when the garden will begin to come alive once more.  Bulbs will start to appear, birds and wildlife will inhabit the garden and landscape, and it’ll be time to spend some long-awaited time outdoors:

Think about new planting strategies or ventures in your garden

Maybe it’s time to design a new planting scheme, create a pond or water feature, or even construct a hard landscaping element. Whatever you imagine your garden to be this year, now’s the time to visualise and plan it.

Plan ahead!

Whether you are making changes in your garden or just preparing it for the year, now is the time to bring your dreams into reality.  Do any hard landscaping jobs while it’s quiet, for instance topping up gravel areas, constructing paths etc.  Prepare your beds, mulching, weeding, feeding, raking and forking over ready for planting.

Prune, Prune, Prune

If your winter flowering shrubs have flourished, now is the time to prune them.

 

It may still be chilly!

If particularly cold weather is predicted provide shelter to early flowering or susceptible plants by covering with cloth material. This can then be removed once the weather regulates.

 

Spare Time?

Any spare time this month can be used to service any machinery, hand tools and generally any examinations or repairs. Sharpen and oil tools such as secateurs, forks, spades, shears etc. Top up oil and fuel levels of lawnmowers, strimmers, hedge trimmers etc. Could the garden shed do with a lick of paint?

To talk to Stella or a member of our team about your grounds maintenance requirements, please call us on 01484 451 387 or email your enquiry to gm@paxman-landscapes.com

February 2014