Luxury Housing Trends & Home Improvement Ideas

Gardens as well as landscaping can look downright awful in the wintertime. Instead of letting all of the dead debris take over your yard, you can prepare your yard for the winter.

After a few light or hard frosts, your annuals will eventually blacken, which is a sign that they need removed. However, impatients and begonias should be removed before the first frost, because they become so slimy. To remove annuals, pull out the plants by the roots or clip the stems as close as you can to the ground.

In late fall or early winter, you can cut down your perennials. Make sure you wait for the weather to become consistent, because you don’t want the plants to use up their stored energy and bloom during the mild part of an early winter. Another tip is to cut them so there is at least 3 inches of stem above the ground.

One last order of business for your landscaping is to rake up most of the leaves so they don’t smother your ground covers. You can leave a few leaves, because they will eventually break down and enrich the soil.