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Clean up fallen rose and peony leaves. They can harbor disease and insect pests over the winter if allowed to remain on the ground.

Tis the Season

Adding Winter Interest to Your Garden: Sarcococca or Sweet Box is a low evergreen with intensely sweet flowers in late winter. Give it a shady location.

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Growing a New Lawn
from Time Life Home Repair and Improvement

Whether establishing a new lawn on an empty lot or replacing an old one that is terminally choked with weeds, you must start the job from scratch. Although not complicated, the process requires careful planning and hard work.

Choosing the Right Grass: The type of grass you plant depends largely upon the local climate. Cool-season grasses, so called because they grow rapidly in the cool temperatures of spring and autumn while languishing in the warm months of a relatively short summer, do well in northern climates. Warm-season grasses, which are more suited to southern climates, flourish in the heat of a long summer and are dormant in cool months. In regions with wide variations of temperature, a mixture of grasses gives the best results. Other characteristics such as color, texture, and drought tolerance should be considered when choosing a grass.
Winter Blooms

Viburnum bodnantense has fragrant pink blossoms on bare stems from November to March. This shrub will reach to 10 feet. Stewartia, a tree related to camellias, has richly patterned winter bark, and white flowers in midsummer. Chimonanthes, or Wintersweet, is a shrub which blooms in February and March to perfume the winter air. Hamamelis, Witch Hazel, unfurls its crumpled petals to spread its scent far and wide. This shrub can be pruned into a small tree.

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