preparing my 'new' Vancouver garden for fall/winter

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  1. Deanne

    Deanne Member

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    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
     
  2. jimmyq

    jimmyq Well-Known Member 10 Years

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    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.
     

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