We’re here today to talk about the right timing when it comes to your shrub trimming.
In addition to taller trees, brightly colored perennials, and grasses that blow in the breeze, your landscape isn’t complete without a combination of shrubs. These plants bring the middle-height element to your home’s landscape, providing shade and soil stability, as well as adding a bit of privacy or another addition of color and texture into your space. Whether you pick evergreen or deciduous shrubs, they could be used in a lot of ways – from flanking entryways to anchoring landscape beds and providing additional cover to turn an unsightly area into a better-looking one. Shrubs do require proper care, just like other landscape plants, and this includes shrub trimming. As shrubs grow, you may notice specific varieties can grow unwieldy quickly without the right pruning. However, you may be asking yourself various questions as temperatures start to warm up, like “Can shrubs be trimmed during the summer?” We’re here today to talk about the right timing when it comes to your shrub trimming so you could have shrubs that continue to provide your house landscape with incredible benefits. Read on to learn more!
Could You Trim Shrubs During the Summer?
You should know your shrub’s growth habits and bloom time to better understand their ideal pruning time. Trimming shrubs at the incorrect time could be very detrimental to their overall health, increasing possible issues, like disease and insects.
When to Trim Your Spring Flowering Shrubs?
Spring flowering bushes usually prefer being trimmed after they’ve finished blooming. This way you could enjoy their floral display, as well as give them a lot of time to create new flower buds for the following spring. This timing is excellent for pruning these plants since they tend to flower on older wood. A few examples of spring flowering bushes that will bloom before mid-June are azalea, lilac, wisteria, viburnum, ninebark, and forsythia.
When to Trim Down Summer Flowering Shrubs
Summer flowering bushes are best trimmed during the late winter before growth or leaf-out starts. This is because these shrubs usually bloom on the new wood, which means they set flower buds on the current season’s growth. Call us today to learn how we at Harford Tree can help!
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