Project Idea: A Garden of Light

Outdoor lighting for beauty and safety can extend the use of your gardens and entertaining spaces into the night. Safety is always the first priority in a lighting design. Anywhere a hazard such as a steps and changes in grade or material occurs should have lights to prevent someone from falling in the dark. Secondly, lighting can be used to create wonderful effects in relationship to your landscape. Some of the effects created with lighting include uplighting into a tree, moonlighting down from a tree, spotlighting to accent your house or a focal point, backlighting to create a silhouette, direct lighting to create shadows, or reflected lighting off of a structure. It is best to create a preliminary design and test your ideas at twilight before permanently installing your lights. Well designed lighting plans can create romance and excitement around your house all year long.

Garden Tasks

Landscape Maintenance

• If deer are munching on your plants, install protective fencing and netting around them. Leave the protection on until plants begin to bloom in the forest.
• Late winter is a good time of year to perform structural and corrective pruning on fruit trees, evergreens and ornamentals that bloom from June onwards.
• Spray an antidesiccant on broad-leaved and needled evergreens to reduce a plants moisture loss and prevent winter burn.
• This is the perfect time of year to research and design your landscape for next season.

Planting

• If you choose to buy a live Christmas tree and plant it after the holiday, do not keep it indoors for longer than 10 days and be sure to keep the root ball moist while it is inside.

Plants of Interest: Deciduous Plants with Showy Bark

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