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    1. Check Insulation
    1. Sort out Heating
    1. Install Roosting Bars
    1. Monitor Watering
    1. Stay on Top of Feeding
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Bonnie Grant is a professional landscaper with a Certification in Urban Gardening. She has been gardening and writing for 15 years. A former professional chef, she has a passion for edible landscaping.

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  • Can a Bougainvillea Stay Outside in Winter?
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Teo Spengler is a master gardener and a docent at the San Francisco Botanical Garden, where she hosts public tours. She has studied horticulture and written about nature, trees, plants, and gardening for more than two decades, following a career as an attorney and legal writer. Her extended family includes some 30 houseplants and hundreds of outdoor plants, including 250 trees, which are her main passion. Spengler currently splits her life between San Francisco and the French Basque Country, though she was raised in Alaska, giving her experience of gardening in a range of climates.

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  • Hydrangea Cold Tolerance
  • What Is Winter Kill?
  • How to Prepare Hydrangeas for Winter
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  • Winterizing Potted Hydrangeas
  • Can I Prune Hydrangeas in Winter?
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Mary Ellen Ellis has been gardening for over 20 years. With degrees in Chemistry and Biology, Mary Ellen’s specialties are flowers, native plants, and herbs.

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  • Benefits of Overwintering Mandevilla
  • How to Overwinter a Mandevilla
  • What to Do in Spring
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Tonya Barnett has been gardening for 13 years. Flowers are her passion. She has transformed her backyard into a cut flower garden, which she regularly chronicles on her YouTube channel http://www.youtube.com/@tonyawiththeflowers.

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