Garden Detective

Though you're cleaning up the perennials and mulching over the roses, there's no need to give up on the garden until spring. You can keep it looking pretty all year long with these winter workhorse plants:

Click photo for great suggestions.

For more ideas, watch this video, which I taped a while back with Vincent Simeone, Director of Planting Fields Arboretum in Oyster Bay:

Get even more ideas from my column titled 'The Winter Garden':

"If you ever go temporarily insane, don't shoot somebody, like a lot of people do. Instead, try to get some weeding done, because you'd really be surprised. "
                                                                                         -- Jack Handey