Does anyone know what/when I can plant in Virginia?

Please contact your county agent. Ask for planting guides for shrubs, trees, ornamentals, annuals and perennials and vegetables. The information is FREE, research based and region specific. I live in south Louisiana and swear by my planting guides published by the LSU Ag Center. Do pay close attention to mature size. If you crowd your plants you will be ripping them out in years. Take time to plan your landscaping. Use /” – ‘ scale graph paper, architects rule and a landscaping template that you can find at your university book store. When choosing plants make sure that they have similar requirements. Don’t plant a drought tolerant plant next to a plant that requires lots of water. Do install some type of irrigation even if only soaker hoses on a timer. Don’t put your beds up against your house. You will be ringing the dinner bell for termites. Create a gravel barrier between the house and the back of the bed using heavy duty landscape cloth covered with a mixed aggregate (road) gravel. Not pea gravel. Barrier should extend from the house to ” beyond the eave drip line. Use steel edging on the back side of the bed as well as the front to keep soil from washing into the gravel. Very attractive with the added advantage of a maintenance strip in back of the bed.Build your beds up at least ” (preferably ” – “) Have your soil tested before planting. Save your self a lot of grief later on. You can plant now but I would spend the winter planning and prepping then plant in the spring (live in south Louisiana)

Please do your home work. I had a landscaping business for years and made lots of $$$ re-doing DIY landscaping that was not properly planned – usually around the five year mark.

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Source(s): Master Gardener
Landscape Contractor

You’re lucky,living in such a mild area.

For a small garden,Roses are a good choice and this is the ideal time to plant.A bed of Hybrid Tea roses,available in a rainbow of colors,beautifully scented and long lasting.

Personal favorites would be the varieties,”Peace”, a huge yellow flower with pink edges to the petals.

“Fragrant Cloud”,scarlet and highly scented.

A centre piece could be a standard rose such as “Blue Moon”,lavender blue with a strong lemon scent.

Underplanted with bulbs,daffodils,snowdrops,tulips etc all of which can be planted now would give a long flowering season.

For potted flowers,Gardenias are the obvious choice for your area.Peace lilies and African Violets are

always popular.

Source(s): years a Nurseryman.

certainly, container grown flowers would properly be planted any time the floor isn’t frozen. are conscious of it is going to take a number of years for the plant to start up mountaineering. there is an previous declaring “first three hundred and sixty days it sleeps (engaged on root equipment quite of precise advance), d it it creeps (the clinging equipment takes time to advance on older advance), third three hundred and sixty days it leaps. So relies upon on age of plant in pot as to how lengthy it takes to “grab carry.”

I live in southeastern Virginia, it’s a great climate for gardening. If you have a shady location plant a dogwood and plant azaleas under it.

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Other good shade plants for our area: bleeding hearts(do these in hanging baskets), caladiums, hostas, astilbes, and lilies of the valley.

For a sunny area plant crepe myrtles. You can plant them now. Gardenias, jasmine, and magnolias are other good choices but keep them out of drafty areas — they will die if exposed to wind. Mimosas and wisteria also thrive in our area.

As for cutting flowers almost all do well. If you have a picket fence you must plant zinnias. Zinnias against a picket fence are a southern tradition.

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Morning glories and hollyhocks are other traditions for the southern garden.