ROLLING HILLS GARDEN CENTER
VILLAGE GALLERY FLORIST
VILLAGE GALLERY FLORIST
January/February Quotes
January/February Quotes
“JANUARY,
The first month of the year,
A perfect time to start all over again,
Changing energies and deserting old moods,
New beginnings, new attitudes”
― Charmaine J Forde
"We spend January 1st walking through our lives, room by room, drawing up a list of work to be done, cracks to be patched. Maybe this year, to balance the list, we ought to walk through the rooms of our lives . . . not looking for flaws, but for potential." ―Ellen Goodman
"On the first of January let every man gird himself once more, with his face to the front, and take interest in the things that are and are to be, and not in the things that were and are past." ―Henry Ward Beecher
“In the coldest February, as in every other month in every other year, the best thing to hold on to in this world is each other.”
— Linda Ellerbee
“February is the border between winter and spring.”
— Terri Guillemets,
“Today is the first of February, snowy, brilliant, but dripping with the sound of spring wherever the sun lies warm, and calling with the heart of spring yonder where the crows are assembling. There is spring in the talk of the chickadees outside my window, and in the cheerful bluster of a red squirrel in the hickory.” – Dallas Lore Sharp
January and February begin our year and often get a bad rep as they are the only two full months of winter. Many think of them as being dark, cold, and miserable. But in reality there is much to celebrate about these two months and much to look forward to in them. Including the Super Bowl, birthdays of famous men and women and Valentine's Day. Here are just a few of the special days in each:
January 1 New Year's Day
January 2 World Introvert Day
January 3 Festival of Sleep Day
January 4 Trivia Day
January 5 National Bird Day
January 6 Bean Day
January 7 Old Rock Day
January 8 Bubble Bath Day
January 12 National Hot Tea Day
January 13 International Skeptics Day
January 14 Dress Up Your Pet Day
January 16 Appreciate a Dragon Day
January 17 Martin Luther King Jr. Birthday - celebrated on the third Monday
January 18 Winnie the Pooh Day - the Birthday of Winnie's author A. A. Milne
January 19 National Popcorn Day
January 21 National Hugging Day
January 23 National Pie Day
January 30 National Inane Answering Message Day
January 31 Backward Day
February 1 National Freedom Day
February 2 Groundhog Day
February 3 Feed the Birds Day
February 4 Rosa Parks Day
February 5 National Weatherperson's Day
February 6 Super Bowl Sunday
February 7 National Send a Card to a
Friend Day
February 8 National Boy Scout Day
February 9 National Pizza Day
February 11 Thomas Edison's Birthday
February 12 Abraham Lincoln's Birthday
February 13 World Radio Day
February 14 Valentine's Day
February 15 Susan B. Anthony's Birthday
February 16 National Almond Day
February 17 Random Acts of Kindness Day
February 18 Pluto Day
February 19 International Tug of War Day
February 20 National Love Your Pet Day
February 21 President's Day
February 22 George Washington's Birthday
February 23 Battle of the Alamo
February 24 National Chili Day
February 25 National Pancake Day
February 26 National Pistachio Day
February 27 World Non-governmental Organization Day
February 28 Rare Disease Day
January/February Gardening Tips from the Old Farmer's Almanac
January/February Gardening Tips from the Old Farmer's Almanac
- You can apply dormant oil spray to deciduous fruit trees. Prune dormant fruit trees if needed.
- Test your garden soil for its pH levels. Contact your local Cooperative Extension office for a soil kit. Then, apply lime, sulfur, and fertilizer according to the soil-test results.
- Plant hardy vegetables and other cool-season crops, such as lettuce, cabbage, broccoli, beets, carrots, radishes, turnips, spinach, peas, and cauliflower. Start seeds of warm-season vegetables indoors.
- Make successive plantings of vegetables so that you have a continuous harvest throughout the growing season.
- Get plant beds or seed boxes ready for growing plants such as tomato, pepper, and eggplant. Have beds ready for planting in early February.
- Deadhead flowers to encourage new blooms.
- Plant cool-season annuals in the garden beds, such as carnations, pansies, petunias, and snapdragons.
- You can start seeds of warm-season flowers now to have transplants ready for spring.
- Plant any trees and shrubs now. Water until established.
- Fertilize established fruit trees. Plant dormant fruit trees.
- Prune any damaged or dead branches from your trees and shrubs. Fertilize.
- To control scale on fruit trees, apply horticultural oil while plants are dormant.
Plant asparagus.
- Replenish mulch on strawberries.
- Start your indoor seed boxes of tomatoes, peppers, eggplants, and cauliflower indoors.
- Clean your annual and perennial flower beds. Add compost to the soil and add more mulch to the beds.
- Prune roses to remove damaged canes. Then fertilize and apply mulch for protection.
- Bulbs can still be planted. Water well and apply mulch for protection. Try dahlias!
- Divide and transplant perennial herbs.
- Continue to deadhead flowers, such as pansies.
- Seed herbs for April planting.
- Put down mulch across all garden beds to control for weeds.
- You can fertilize your houseplants with a water-soluble fertilizer when they show new growth.
- Divide and replant crowded perennials after they emerge.
- After temperatures rise to 65 degrees F for 4 to 5 days, apply a pre-emergent weed killer to prevent warm-season weeds.
- Fertilize spring-blooming bulbs.
- Finish planting shrubs and trees. Fertilize.
- If not done in January, fertilize established fruit trees now.
- Prune dormant trees. Avoid pruning citrus until the spring.
- Prune shrubs now; wait to prune spring-flowering shrubs until after they bloom.
- Plant more vegetables, such as lettuce, cabbage, collards, onion sets, brussels sprouts, broccoli, carrots, spinach, kale, mustard greens, radishes, turnips, peas, and beets.
- Plant Irish potatoes now! Plant 3 inches deep.
VALENTINE'S DAY SPECIALS
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VALENTINE'S DAY SPECIALS
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1/2 DOZEN ROSES IN VASE WITH BALLOON..........................................$60.00
3 ROSES IN VASE WITH BEAR..................................................................$45.00
MASON JAR WITH MIXED FLOWERS......................................................$45.00
BEAR WITH BALLOON..............................................................................$15.00
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