2022 Landscape Care Calendar
March
- Implement your Plant Health Care programs
- Prune most evergreen trees and shrubs
- Last chance to prune citrus, ficus, and other sun-sensitive trees
- Treat olive trees to reduce fruit development
April
- Adjust your irrigation timer
- Increase duration, not just frequency, of tree watering cycles
- Fertilize and mulch trees
May
- Prune to help prevent damage in monsoon winds, especially eucalyptus and mesquite trees
- Trim date palms after May 15th
- 2nd application of citrus fertilizer
June
- Call your arborist if you see signs of pests and diseases
- Adjust or install staking on young trees
- Plant and transplant palm trees in summer heat
- Prune queen palms after June 1st
- Trim Mexican fan palms after June 15th in order to get all seed pods in one trimming
July
- Prune California fan palms after July 15th
- Treat plants stressed by summer heat with biostimulant ArborKelp®
August
- Prune mesquite and eucalyptus trees now, if you haven’t already
- 3rd application of citrus fertilizer
