I've recently graduated from gardening in pots on a small apartment deck ...to caring for a newly planted garden in Vancouver. I now need to learn what to do with perennials as we (sadly) near fall/winter. I'd also appreciate any tips on what should be done in the upcoming months that will ensure a stunning spring/summer 2005! These are some of the recent plantings: Phormium Actinidia Kiwi Musella lasiocarpa (chinese yellow banana) Lavendula (augustifolia & Provence) Santalina Rosa Bonica Boxwoods Zantedeschia - calla lily Liatris Spicata Miscanthus (Yaku Jima) Oranmental Millet (purple majesty) Bugbane Nemesia Canna Miss Oklahoma clematis (Josephine, armandii snowdrift, and hybrida sieboldii) Bougainvillea Purple Queen (I understand this one will need to winter indoors) spotted dead nettle (lamium maculatum) adiantum capillus-vernis (venus maidenhair fern) alocasia macrorrhiza (elephant ear) deer fern Sarcacco Nandina Hostas Jasmine Privit I recognize this is a rather large list....but, I'd appreciate any advice I might get from those of you who are more experienced. If there are websites that I should research please let me know. So far, I haven't found anything on how to winterize a westcoast garden. Thanks in advance! Deanne
approach fall/ winter? huh?! not so fast for me please... :) we have a few months of summer ahead of us yet in my eyes. i digress. for most gardens the basics would be.. prune and clean up perennials in mid to late fall and mulch with compost bark or other nice fluffy soil amendment (some prefer to do this in spring) ie. kelp, manures... remove annuals that are spent and dying wean everything off fertilizer during September check Gardens West or Gardenwise magazine fall issues, they ALWAYS have to do lists in them that are normally succint and timely.
