Now or Later: Fall vs. Spring Clean-Up

"I'm a fall clean up person.  When the snow flies I like to look out and see all my flower beds put to sleep for the winter, knowing they're nice and clean," says Chris, contributor to garden.org.

I feel the same way. My flower garden will meet winter looking like this:

Hard to believe there'll be things growing here next year, but it'll happen.

Check out Chris' article  "Fall Flower Garden Clean-Up" (originally published in 2011 and re-posted a couple of days ago.) 

Even though cleaning up your flower garden in the fall is a matter of preference, Chris gives quite a few reasons behind his decision not to put off this task until spring.

Live for the Love of it,

Sasha A. Palmer (aka Happy)