- Protect cordylines from freezing temperatures by bringing them under cover or tying up the leaves and wrapping them in fleece until the cold snap is over.
- Shorten tall stems of rose bushes to reduce wind-rock in winter.
- Dig over cleared areas in the kitchen garden, forking in compost as you go.
- Lift and divide old rhubarb plants.
- Move shrubs which have outgrown their current position, if the ground is not frozen or waterlogged.
- Sow crops of hardy peas and broad beans.
- Winter prune climbers and shrubs like passiflora and bougainvillea.
- Wrap sacking or bubble wrap around terracotta and ceramic containers to stop them freezing and cracking.
- Complete winter pruning of fruit trees.
- Check greenhouse heaters are working and make sure the levels are high enough to last the night.
- Sow seeds of slowmaturing half-hardy summer bedding plants in heated propagators in the greenhouse.
- Bring potted bulbs into the home to flower.
- Take winter hanging baskets under cover, before the hard frosts arrive.
- Lag and protect outdoor pipes.
- Keep an area of your pond ice-free if you have fish.
- In good weather, continue to plant hardy deciduous trees and shrubs, especially barerooted ones.
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