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- Plant bare-root roses, trees, vines, berries and vegetables
- Choose and plant camellias and azaleas
- Purchase cymbidiums
- Purchase and plant cool-season flowers to fill in bare spots
- Plant seeds of warm-season flowers for transplants to put out in spring
- Continue to plant winter vegetables from transplants and seeds
- Many succulents, including cacti, bloom in winter and spring; purchase new types now
- Prune deciduous fruit trees
- Prune roses
- Deadhead azaleas
- Mow cool-season lawns. Most warm-season lawns are dormant now and don't need mowing
- Begin to feed citrus trees in coastal zones
- Treat citrus trees for chlorosis
- Start feeding epiphyllums for bloom with
0-10-10 or 2-10-10
- Continue to fertilize cymbidiums that have not yet bloomed with a high-bloom formula
- Feed cool-season flowers
- Feed cineraria
- Fertilize cool-season lawns
- Water plants according to need (when the rains are not adequate).
- Irrigate citrus trees
- Remember to water plants under eaves where the rains cannot reach
- Dormant spray roses and deciduous fruit trees
- Dormant spray sycamore trees
- Check citrus trees for pests
- Pick up dead camellia blossoms to prevent petal blight
- Protect cymbidiums from slugs and snails
- Control rust on cool-season lawns
- Check trees, shrubs, and ice plant in coastal zones for overwintering whiteflies. Control by spraying
- Pull weeds
- Spray peach and apricot for peach leaf curl
- Protect tender plants from frost
- Stake cymbidium bloom spikes
- Near the end of the month check bamboo in coastal zones to see if it is time to propagate
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