Spring has Sprung

March 29, 2007

On the calendar, spring arrived last week, but the weather gave us what I hope was the final blast of winter. Snow in the mountains, snow in Beaumont and Yucaipa and maybe at some other higher elevations. Winter can always make for beautiful scenery, but that frost can be hard on our tender garden plants. Hopefully, you hadn't gotten around to putting in your annual pansies, petunias and allysums in the garden but if you did, the frost was light and they may have survivied.

Now is the time to cut back all the frost damaged plants from last months really deep chill. This weekend is slated to be clear and warm, so get out the pruners and the rakes and trowels and prepare the garden for the rest of the year. Nurseries have wonderful assortments of plants - also all the nutrients and insecticides to grow healthy plants.

A week or so ago, I attended an event in a beautiful garden in Moreno Valley. I can testify that that beautiful garden made the whole property special. If you think that you might sell this year, pay attention now to nuturing a beatiful garden.