Plants and seeds make awesome holiday, hostess and mystery gifts! Plant bare-root roses, bulbs, camellias, cyclamen, hellebore, living Christmas trees and bare-root fruit and landscape trees. For maintenance, adjust your irrigation, protect citrus and other sensitive plants, apply dormant spray, add mulch to beds, divide perennials and throw out fallen rose leaves.
Catalogs are arriving to get you excited about what to plant next year. You might want to consider removing some lawn area and creating a new planting bed to make room for all the new plants in the catalogs.