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SPRING TIME CARE FOR TREES AND SHRUBS

Pruning
Trees and tree care are an investment. A healthy mature tree increases in value with age. Pruning is important in establishing healthy, well formed trees. Spring can be one of the best times of the year for pruning your trees and shrubs. Spring pruning allows for earlier growth response in performing wound closure on trees or thickening the growth of shrubs and hedges. Pruning should be performed every three to five years.

Soil Amendments and Fertilization
Spring is an optimum time for nutrient uptake and utilization in plants. Fertilization is performed for a number of reasons which include:
- to help replenish sterile urban soils that do not get the opportunity for nutrient recycling
- to help strengthen diseased trees
- to provide nutrients where poor soils exist
- to assist older trees
- to provide nutrients for trees growing in adverse conditions
   (ie parking lots, roadsides etc)
- to increase the rate of growth

Insect and Disease Treatments
Spring is a very active time for many species of insects and diseases that injure and threaten our trees and shrubs health.
By identifying the symptoms or damage you may be able to diagnosis and select an appropriate treatment.

Planting
Planting trees and shrubs in the spring helps to promote better establishment. The plant benefits from being in the ground earlier in the season and can then begin the process of growing those roots it needs to survive.