I don't mail order anything relating to my garden, nor do I start seeds - so I use the winter for updating my personal plant database, making a new 'wish list' for plants to keep my eye out for at local nurseries, and noting which plants to move around. I am also fortunate to live in a temperate region and can often get outside to putt around a bit here and there - pruning, cleaning up, random weeding. Sometimes I will be surprised by a lone bloom or two.