Gardening

To love dragging yourself out of the house in the shortest, darkest days of the year is much less of a struggle if you have some hellebores in the garden. All winter flowers are magical, but they tend to be small like those of wych hazel or viburnum, and at the same time highly fragrant. Hellebores, on the other hand, have large flowers, like single roses, strikingly and surprisingly lush- looking in the winter wastes. They survive winter snows by hanging their heads downward, and by having strong petals. Nonetheless, there is a hint of transparency in the flower so that any stray beam of winter sunlight makes it light up and glow. This seems to be enough to attract insects for pollination as very few hellebores are scented. There are all sorts of hybrids available, with flowers from pale green to deep purply black. The foliage is large, palmate, usually a good dark green, and generally glossy. Plant in good deep moist soil in semi shade, as its natural habitat is on the woodland floor.

To do Like all good gardeners, you washed down the glass and insulated the greenhouse with bubble wrap at the end of the autumn didn't you? Nevertheless, the winter months will have already taken their toll, so wrap up warm and wash down the outside of the glass panes, which will almost certainly be stained with grime of all kinds already. This will maximise the amount of light and heat reaching the interior of the greenhouse. While you're out there, clean out your gutters that will, mysteriously, have become clogged again with leaves.

Also, check any rain barrels for leaves. If you get a sunny day, give the greenhouse a quick airing; all the plants will benefit as it reduces the chance of disease.

Make sure you close it up before the temperature drops. If you are lucky enough to have peach or nectarine trees in pots, now is the time to move them into an unheated greenhouse to prevent the spores of the fungus infection known as peach leaf curl settling on the damp foliage. Pot plants like hippeastrum and azalea, which finished flowering over Christmas, can be moved out to the greenhouse to start recuperating, but don't forget to water them sparingly. Think about what seeds you are going to plant in March - it's never too early to start planning.




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