Gardener's Calendar

February Gardening Advice

February can still bring extremes of weather, but with longer hours of daylight and spells of bright winter sunshine. The late winter garden can be so inspiring, with hellebores, witch hazels, snowdrops, and cyclamen in flower. Everywhere there are signs of renewed life, there comes a realisation that Spring is just around the corner..

February is the perfect month for selecting and purchasing new hellebores. See our Helleborus x hybridus ‘Ashwood Garden Hybrids’, with some gorgeous colours and forms now available. Hellebores can’t be beaten for providing flower colour in winter and early Spring, especially when combined with snowdrops and cyclamen.

Plenty of jobs can now be carried out for the flower, fruit and vegetable garden, from seed-sowing and planting summer bulbs to preparing the ground for spring planting. Remember to continue to feed the wild birds in your garden. Offer a range of seeds, dried mealworms, etc. and provide them with fresh drinking water. Soon, they will be nesting, so set up nesting boxes in suitable places with entrances out of the wind and sun.