Cut down deciduous ornamental grasses left standing over winter, before fresh shoots appear .

Divide large clumps of snowdrops and winter aconites after flowering and replant to start new colonies.

Divide congested clumps of herbaceous perennials and grasses to make vigorous new plants for free.

Transplant deciduous shrubs while they are dormant.

Pot up containers with hardy spring bedding plants.

Cut back wisteria side shoots to three buds from the base, to encourage abundant flowers in spring.

Give winter heathers a light trim after flowering, removing shoot tips but not cutting back into old wood.

Cut away all the old foliage from epimediums before the spring flowers start to develop.

Sprinkle slow-release fertilizer around the base of roses and other flowering shrubs.

Finish winter-pruning fruit trees and soft fruits, including apples, autumn raspberries, and blackcurrants.

Feed fruit trees and bushes by sprinkling sulphate of potash fertilizer around the base to encourage fruiting.

Plant rhubarb into enriched soil, or lift and divide established clumps.

Plant bare-root fruit bushes, trees and canes, as long as the ground isn't frozen.

Make or buy a cold frame to use when hardening off young plants in spring.

Improve the soil by spreading garden compost or well-rotted manure over beds and forking it.

Sort out and clean up canes, plant supports and cloches, ready for use in spring.

Prune hybrid tea and floribunda roses, before growth restarts.

Clean and service mowers and garden power tools, so they're in good order for spring.

Spread a layer of well-rotted manure around roses and shrubs.

Cosmos

Sweet peas

Salvias

Hardy geranium

Liatrus

Lilies

Agapanthus.