Before you hang out that “Do Not Disturb: It’s Summer” sign, take a minute to think about your landscaping.
Around the end of July, the hottest time of year here in Southeast Idaho, the daily average temperature is 87 degrees.
Not hot enough for your tomato plants to spontaneously combust, but plenty hot enough to stress your thirsty lawn, encourage ugly fungus, and lure apparently every creepy bug in the state into your house.
Maybe you’re pining for a giant maple tree with a tire swing, but you have a small city yard.
Just when you thought it was time to stow the garden tools for the season, you get this news: winter is great for pruning.
In fact, winter is the best time for pruning trees and shrubs. You can wait a bit for grasses, but it’ll still be chilly when they need a trim.
Sure, it's more comfy for YOU to tackle this task in July. In shorts. Holding an icy lemonade. But your plants prefer it now.
Here are 6 benefits of winter pruning.
A brown tree is never a good thing. So when you gaze up at your majestic blue spruce and realize its top towering branches are a crispy brown, you’re right to be concerned.
Why is the top of your spruce tree dying? Let’s take a look.
And we’ll talk about how to stop evergreens from turning brown in the first place.
Sometimes we get calls from clients whose trees aren’t coming out of dormancy. Instead of new leaves unravelling from the tips of branches, the tree is still bare. Or the leaves are pale and fall off within a few days.
When they call us, we always ask the question, “Did you just plant or move your tree last season?”
And, often, the answer is yes.
