Landscape Care Calendar

March

  • Implement your lawn care and plant health care programs
  • Prune ornamental and fruit trees before new growth
  • Cut back ornamental grasses so new shoots can emerge
  • Prune rose bushes
  • Consider early spring goose repellent treatments or ash tree protection from emerald ash borer

April

  • Evaluate ornamental trees and shrubs for winter damage
  • Treat susceptible trees to protect them from borers
  • Schedule spring tree fertilization
  • Complete shade tree and feature tree pruning
  • Apply first lawn fertilization with crabgrass pre-emergent
  • Begin preventive disease treatments

May

  • Schedule a wetting agent application for summer
  • Treat vulnerable boxwoods with ArborBuxus

June

  • Call your arborist if you see signs of pests and diseases
  • Schedule a storm damage risk audit with your arborist

July

  • Perform hand pruning of spring flowering shrubs
  • Treat plants stressed by summer heat with biostimulant ArborKelpĀ®
  • Water lawns deeply and infrequently
  • Prune hedges / non-flowering shrubs

August

  • Keep fruit trees nourished and watered during the summer months
  • Schedule a fall aeration

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