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| Forsythia in bloom now |
The rule of green thumbs is to prune your roses when the Forsythia are in bloom. This climate specific advice is much more useful than stating a particular week or month to prune or plant something. We need to look for signals in our own gardens for when to care for our plants.
Throughout Metro Vancouver we have many climate variances. For instance, one of our garden sites is at the top of Mountain Hwy in North Vancouver. This garden is usually a full month behind our Vancouver gardens in spring.
Even within Vancouver there are many different climates. Oceans moderate temperatures. Both of us Cultivated Gardeners live by the ocean. Sometimes we set off for an autumn garden clean in Kerrisdale or South Cambie, only to discover those gardens are covered in a new snowfall; yet where we live, there wasn't even frost.
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