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- If you are planning any major changes to your garden, it is best to do it now while the soil is damp; but not if the soil is still frozen or water logged. Make changes from now until early spring.
- Make a note of areas in the flower beds and in the rest of the garden, that retain water. These areas may need to have drains installed when the weather allows.
- Keep holiday plants away from small children and pets. Poinsettia leaves, and holly and mistletoe berries are not poisonous as some might suggest, but parts of them are toxic and can cause adverse reactions if eaten.
- Gently remove snow from plants. Branches will break if they get to weighed down.
- Begin planning flower borders. Sketch an outline of the border, select your plants and order them.
- Prepare soil for Dahlias. Dahlias benefit from plenty of compost and manure and this will also help soil to retain moisture.
- Check the Dahlia tubors that you have stored. Make sure they are not wet or decaying.
- Make sure that the Chrysanthemums that you have saved from last fall, have survived. (In fall, chrysanthemums can be lifted and stored in a packing of soil and compost and stored in a cold but frost free area.)
- Plant heather, jasmine and other winter flowering shrubs now.
- Seed pansies, geraniums and other early flowers now.
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