There's not a lot of opportunity to do gardening work in the winter. Most of our landscapes are dormant right now. There are no weeds, no insects and the garden hose is rolled up in the garage (or full of ice if you forgot to bring it in).

Many of our landscape plants are deciduous, which means they drop their leaves in the fall. This not only protects the plant from winter cold, but it affords us an opportunity to see the branch structure.