In the vegetable garden you might copy a technique used at Johnson Lane Farms, where Agri-bond featherweight fabric acts as a physical barrier to cabbage moths. Transition to a more holistic, organic approach of growing. Here's a list of newer perennials to add to the garden for the season. You can even plant hellborus, a winter-blooming perennial to provide color where none existed before. To attain heights of spring flowering glory, gardeners must direct their thoughts to procurement of bulbs in fall.
Bulbs come in different quality grades.
Discount houses buy lesser quality bulbs and could be perfectly adequate for your needs when planting large-scale, naturalized plantings. For refined garden beds, indoor forcing of bulbs and purchase of tender bulbs, such as amaryllis for Christmas gifts, you'll want to spend the extra pennies on top-quality, No. 1 grade bulbs. Unusual bulbs to look for are snowdrops, fritallaria, autumn-flowering crocus and saffron crocus. Timing really is everything in controlling, eradicating and preventing pest problems. A particularly useful, less toxic control for a wide variety of insects, mites and scale on decidous trees, shrubs and fruit trees is the use of dormant oil.