Get Spring Blooms Early

Forcing branches into full-on flowers is a simple garden fix for the last days of winter.

Winter Flowers: Elegant Garden Display
Photo: Erica George Dines

An Elegant Garden Display

Shake off winter early with the brightness of flowering trees and shrubs; just clip budded branches and force them into bloom. (This rite of spring may be short-lived, but how glorious!)

You need only one large bundle of pussy willow branches to create the elegant display in this photo.

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