Did you know that late winter through early spring are the two best times for pruning your deciduous trees, such as maples, oaks, elms, and crabapples?
Indeed, your arborist can see the entire tree canopy in order to make the best cuts that respects the tree’s form and removes the branches that could cause disease or property damage.
Each year, plant producers come out with new plant varieties that make them easier to grow, more resistant to disease, and more drought-tolerant.
And this benefits you, as a home gardener, because you save money and time.
Are you tired of being cooped up and away from family and friends? Then, there’s good news for you. Spring will return, and you’ll be able to enjoy your outdoor living areas and gardens again. Hopefully, you’ll be able to host larger gatherings thanks to the new vaccines.
As you turn the calendar from 2020 to 2021, you can start dreaming about how you want to enhance your backyard living areas. After the winter holidays, call your local landscape designer to make your dreams a reality.
Summer is slowly coming to an end, and fall will be here to dazzle us soon. You want to continue the bounty of summer, but you also know that a frost or two will force your beautiful landscape to go to sleep.
The beginning of September is the perfect time to design your gardens and beds for fall and winter interest.
You may think spring is the best time to plant and update your Central Virginia landscape. However, with the lower temperatures during the fall, fall time is actually perfect for planting an array of trees, shrubs and groundcovers and even pruning some trees and shrubs. In the fall, cooler weather will put less stress on the plants during installation, thus allowing them to better acclimate to the new surroundings.
