1 Hip repair involves stabilizing broken bones with surgical screws, nails, rods, or plates. This type of surgery is usually for people who have fractures in which the bones can be properly aligned. This may also be called hip pinning..  Hip replacement surgery (arthroplasty).
Homeowners should know that from now until mid-March is the ideal time to spray your lawn for our winter spectrum of weeds.. Weeds still growing. Even though the warm-season turfgrass in your lawn isn't green, various winter annual weeds are growing. These include common chickweed, henbit and annual bluegrass.
Other grasses offer garden drama when planted en masse. Muhly grass blooms create a dramatic cloud of pink each fall that you can't miss. Pruning Ornamental Grasses. Ornamental grasses often have attractive winter characteristics that should be preserved through the colder months. But the weather can leave them looking a bit ragged. Since many grasses keep their showy flower stalks through the winter, wait to prune until late winter or early spring, just prior to new shoot growth. In north and central Florida, prune ornamental grasses in February and March. In South Florida, you may wish to cut back or trim ornamental grasses in January or February. For deciduous grasses like some Miscanthus, the old foliage may be completely removed with a chainsaw or hedge shears.