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 insummer 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
  • Schedule a fall aeration

August

  • Prune mesquite and eucalyptus trees now, if you haven’t already
  • 3rd application of citrus fertilizer

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