Winter Pruning Ensures Healthy Trees & Shrubs This Spring
Do you want your trees and shrubs to survive the winter and thrive this spring? Then, you need winter pruning that provides optimal plant health throughout the harshest winter weather.
Winter Pruning Protects and Preserves Your Trees & Shrubs
You want your trees and shrubs to survive the winter and thrive come next spring because they add depth, interest, color, and more to your landscape.
There are four reasons your trees and shrubs need pruning:
- Supporting plant health
- Maintaining the plant’s structure
- Improving flower production
- Highlighting aesthetic appeal.
It would be a loss to you to see any of your trees and shrubs severely damaged during high winds and freezing temperatures.
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You also want to prevent your more delicate shrubs, such as crape myrtles, from losing their form or dying due to frigid temperatures. These shrubs need the protection of burlap wrapping.
Don’t Let Winter Weather Threaten Your Trees and Shrubs
Winter weather can be harsh on your evergreens, hedges, and trees. Dry winds and freezing temperatures cause winterburn on your evergreens, turning their needles yellow to brown, affecting the plant’s overall health.
Heavy snow or ice, like those that fall during Noreasters, weigh down pine trees and many shrubs, such as rose of Sharon and holly bushes.
If you haven’t pruned your trees and shrubs over the past few years, weak or damaged branches may fall when snow or ice is on them.
You also have a packed schedule due to your job and running your kids to different activities, leaving no time to prune your landscape’s trees and shrubs. Plus, you may not know how to make pruning cuts or have the pruning tools to do the job well.
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Yet, you still want a harmonized landscape; your trees and shrubs are crucial to that harmony.
Your local landscaping company knows what cuts to make and already has the pruning tools. You owe it to yourself to take a break from winter landscaping tasks.
Ensure Healthy Trees and Shrubs with Winter Pruning
You want your trees and shrubs to stand tall and provide a contrast in a winter wonderland. Winter pruning shapes trees and shrubs to withstand cold winds, heavy snow, and damaging ice.
Winter pruning your trees and shrubs provides the following benefits:
- Improves the woody plant’s growth and form
- Prevents increased disease and insect damage
- Forms the young trees and shrubs’ shape
- Removes dead and dying branches that could cause further plant damage
- Trims branches that rub together
- Cuts away branch stubs.
Alternatively, when you don’t prune your trees and shrubs, you risk winter storms splitting your favorite pine trees or killing your prized holly.
Investing in pruning today can save you money as you reduce your risk of property damage and emergency tree removal.
Also, stay warm inside this winter while our landscape team trims and prunes your woody plants.
Schedule Your Pruning Today!
Don’t wait. Book your trimming and pruning with Jamison Lawn Care today to ensure your trees and shrubs survive the winter and thrive next spring.
Fill out our contact form or call us today at (267) 621-4747.
Sources:
Extension.UMN.edu, Pruning Trees and Shrubs.
Extension.UNH.edu, The Basics of Pruning Trees and Shrubs (Fact Sheet).
