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