The final show of the 2015 series kicked off with a look ahead to tasks over this weekend and into the coming weeks. Paraic advised that bulbs, trees and spring flowering plants can still be planted with great options available such as winter heathers, cyclamens, wallflowers, garlic and onion sets all now readily available.c
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With leaf drop now is an great time to start a composter and he advised that all non- stone fruits can be pruned now. Featured plants included Bedfordshire Champion onions, Beauty Bush, Fushia Million Bells and Variegated Rhododendron. Listeners questions focused on on pruning summer flowering shrubs and roses, suitable trees for an elevated site, re-potting lemon plants, propagating apple trees by cleft grafting, setting young marigolds and lupins and suitable trees for celebrating the birth of a child.