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Need a good New Years Resolution.  

	Resolve to try something different in your garden this year: a new plant variety, a different arrangement of plants or use a piece of garden art.  Your sons old football?
	Plan your garden by sketching out what you may want to do and then visit gardening publications to get ideas for new plants and such.  ( or surf this site some more)

Cut the blooms from the winter forced bulbs such as amaryllis to prevent energy from being used in seed production.  

Like to save a little money?  Now is the time to plant bare root plants.  These may often be ordered mail order or but at discounts locally.  Remember to still water them in well and water weekly (if no rain) to help them establish healthy roots.

Bare root roses especially do well when established at this time while they may establish themselves and be on the schedule of our climate.

Even when the deciduous shrubs and trees appear dead, they are still working.  The work is going on underground in the roots.  

Speaking of deciduous shrubs and trees, take a moment to walk around and look at some of the neat texture, branches and structure of some of these plants.  

	Some plants with winter interest are dogwood,  crape myrtle, corkscrew willow and weeping form trees.
	Look at the movement and interesting forms provided by dormant ornamental grasses such as Miscanthus, fountain grasses and pampas grass.

Prune summer blooming shrubs and trees that bloom on new wood.  Some of these include Buddleia (butterfly bush), Rose of Sharon and Crape Myrtles.  

I know you want to but DO NOT CUT BACK YOUR LANTANAS!  If they are from us 'Mrs. Huff' and 'Mozzelle' should return in the spring.  Wait until you see new growth coming from the base of the stems.  You may have to keep waiting until Mothers Day.

Keep a check on fast growing vines such as honeysuckle, autumn clematis bittersweet and Virginia creeper.   Prune as needed to keep them in their boundaries.   

Even though it appears we are going to bring in 2006 with a warm spell, there are still cold days ahead.  Don't forget our feathered friends and keep the bird feeders well stocked.  Don't forget to clean and refill the birdbath as well.  

Turn over the soil in your annual flower and vegetable beds to expose overwintering insects and their eggs to killing cold.  

There are weeds growing, hoe them, pull them or turn them under now while they are still small.  It will be easier than when they get a good foothold.