Spring in your room (Part 1)
You can create early spring for your garden plants and trees and home flowers by forcing them into bloom. And forcing spring bloomers is not too difficult task.
There are many spring flowering plants that will easily blossom at your room and also you can experiment with your trees in the garden. Try some traditional trees and bushes: azalea, beautybush, crab apple, flowering quince, forsythia, magnolia, pussy willow, redbud, rhododendron, serviceberry, witch hazel, and fruit trees such as cherries, pears and apples.
Almost all trees and shrubs, which flower in spring, require a period of cold dormancy in order to bloom.
By the middle of January, most of them have had enough cold to allow forcing them into bloom indoors. But there are some plants, for example, crab apples, beautybush, magnolias and redbuds that demand a longer dormancy and it is better to wait with them until late-February or early-March.
Cutting branches will be better to delay until a relatively warm day. If that’s not possible and the branches are already frozen, them, it helps to immerse the entire branch in slightly warm water for a few hours.
Look for swollen, plump buds. You will see both flower and leaf buds on the stems, but note that flower buds will be rounder and larger than leaf ones. Cut the branches at an angle and be sure that your cut them long enough to display.