To keep your flowerbeds colorful and attractive over the winter and into the spring, now is the time to replace warm-season bedding plants that bloomed over the summer. If they still look good, you can wait until mid-December to get this done (if freezes don’t get them first).

Replace them with any of the rich variety of cool-season bedding plants available now in area nurseries. These plants will thrive during winter’s cold and keep your beds full of colorful flowers.

Cool-season bedding plants are those that are planted from October to March. They like mild to cool temperatures and tolerate freezing temperatures down to the low 20s or even teens. Among the many cool-season bedding plants we can put in now, however, there are differences in how they are planted and when they bloom.

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