Enjoy the sunshine when it’s out but hold off on that spring cleanup. It’s still too early in the season for clearing yard and garden debris. Why? For starters, we often have snow and freezing temperatures through April. We recommend you wait until daytime...
Winter is a great time to prune many of your deciduous trees and shrubs. Without the leaves you can easily see the structure of the plant, including crossing, broken and damaged branches. Pruning some branches now will not only help to reduce damage from winds, storms...
Winter is a great time to prune deciduous trees. You can see the structure easily as you look for crossing branches and dead, diseased, or damaged wood. Clean cuts made by rabbits and jagged edges made by deer foraging for food during winter may also be found. On days...
Winter is a great time to see the architecture of trees and bushes without the leaves. When temps are above freezing as the ice and snow melts, look for crossing branches and dead, diseased, or damaged wood. Removing these will improve air and light circulation and...