PRECISION PRUNING

Pruning Spring Flowering Shrubs   Pruning can benefit landscape plants by maintaining size, promoting flowering, removing dead and diseased limbs, focusing growth on younger or more vigorous stems and helping to control insect and disease problems.  However, timing can be critical on flowering shrubs, especially spring blooming shrubs.    Spring flowering shrubs, like viburnums, lilacs…

BARE ROOT CARE

Handling and Planting “Bare Root” Plants in the Home Landscape Chances are good that you’ve bought or ordered bare root plants before — those plants that come with no soil around their roots. Lots of plants are sold as bare root plants, including some roses, ornamental trees and shrubs, fruit trees, asparagus, and some perennials.…