YOUR GARDEN GUY: Enjoy winter jasmine's beautiful yellow flowers

What's that yellow flowering shrub? It's not forsythia! It's winter jasmine (Jasminum Nudiflorum). It features beautiful green stems, long flower time, is cold hardy and grows to about 4-by-4-feet in size. It's easy and beautiful!

For lots of flowers this spring, now is the time to start seeds indoors of coleus, marigolds, cosmos, zinnias and other warm season annuals. Use the new varieties, they are more disease resistant.

Home and garden shows, garden tours and seminars are beginning. Go online and search for ones that interest you. Start planning today.

With all of this beautiful weather we are having, it's time to get out in the garden and tackle some of those projects that you have been putting off.

Need to plant a container in a hurry? Try a used coffee filter in the bottom of the pot to cover the drainage hole. Fill with soil and plants. It's quick and easy, and a great way to recycle.

Now is the time to prune hybrid tea roses. Remove weak and diseased canes. Prune remaining canes to a height of 18 to 24 inches. Remove and replace mulch if there was a significant disease or insect problem on the roses.

Daphne Odora, or winter daphne, has it all! It features winter blooms and fragrant flowers. This evergreen shrub grows 3 to 4 feet, is shade loving and is great for containers or any well-drained garden site.

Todd Goulding provides residential landscape design consultations. Contact him at www.fernvalley.com or 478-345-0719.

This story was originally published February 17, 2016 at 9:39 PM with the headline "YOUR GARDEN GUY: Enjoy winter jasmine's beautiful yellow flowers ."