• Fruit and pecan trees, grapes, berries, asparagus, onions, English peas, anemones, and ranunculus.
• Balled-and-burlapped or containerized trees, shrubs, and vines.
• Transplant plants during dormant period.
• Spring flowers and vegetable seeds indoors.
• Cold-hardy color: dianthus, pansies, flowering kale, and cabbage (if the weather is mild).
• Complete daffodil plantings in early January. "Force" bulbs in pots indoors

• Spot water any dry areas to avoid plant desiccation.

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• Writer annuals and grasses.
• Asparagus beds in late January.

• Horticultural oil if needed to scale-prone plants such as oaks, hollies, camellias, euonymus, pecan, and fruit trees. Do not do if beneficial insect populations have been established.
• Houseplants: spray with garlic/pepper tea or dilute citrus oil mixture for mealy bugs, spider mites, and scale

• Shade trees and summer flowering trees. Remove dead and damaged limbs.
• Summer-flowering trees including crepe myrtles (remove no twigs larger than a pencil in diameter), abelias, altheas.
• Evergreen shrubs.
• Fruit trees. (Best time is just before bud break.)

• Have soil tests run.
• Turn compost pile monthly or more often to keep moist.
• Plan spring landscape improvement projects and begin construction activities.
• Prepare garden soil by adding compost and lava sand and mulching bare soil.
• Take mower, tiller, and trimmers into shop for repairs before spring.
• Feed the birds!