Plants in Flower:

Japonica Camellia, Wintersweet (Chimonanthus), Daphne Odora, January Jasmine and Lenten-Rose (Helleborus)

What to Fertilize:

--Spread wood ashes from the fireplace or wood burning stove around the vegetable garden, flowering bulb beds, and non-acid loving plants.

What to Plant:

--Plant asparagus crowns this month when soil is dry enough to work.

What to Prune:

--Prune broken and undesired limbs on your shade trees.
--Bleeder trees like dogwood, maple, birch, styrax, or elm can be pruned severely early in the month, before the sap rises.
--Clear "weed" or unnecessary trees from your landscape.

Pest Outlook:

-- None

Lawn Care:

--Keep tree leaves from collecting on your lawn.

Propagation:

--Hardwood cuttings of many landscape plants like crape myrtle, flowering quince, forsythia, hydrangea, juniper, spirea and weigela can be taken this month.

Specific Chores:

--Do not forget to care for holiday house plants like poinsettia, amaryllis, Christmas cactus, gloxinia and cyclamen.
--Order your small fruit plants like strawberry, blueberry and blackberry for a mid-March planting.
--Study your home landscape to see what additions or improvements can be added to your yard.
--Visit the local public library for landscape and garden information.
--Prepare a spot in the vegetable garden for February vegetables like English peas, cabbage, carrots, onions, Irish potatoes, radishes, rutabagas, spinach and turnips.
--Study your seed catalogs and check for the All-American Selections of flowers and vegetables.
--Order fruit trees, if not done last fall. Contact your local county Extension center to find out the recommended small fruit varieties for your area.