Tree & Shrub Care
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What does maintaining healthy plants entail?
Our goal is to keep all your plants to include shrubs, bushes, and trees healthy, safe and attractive. Proper care of your flowers, shrubs and bushes help keep your yard looking great, while allowing plants to last longer. See below for more information.
Professional Garden Care
Professionally cultivated gardens are a must for curb appeal. This is why it’s important to ensure that the health and wellness of your flower beds and shrubs are in prime condition. For a lush and maintained garden, Harris Lawn & Landscape has all the tools, resources, and experience necessary to make your dream garden come to life. With the proper garden care and maintenance, your floral displays and professionally cultivated garden will add great value to your property as described below:
- Use mulch to retain moisture and prevent weed growth, keeping your garden lush
- Provide temporary seasonal outdoor decor to compliment the colors on your property
- Proactive pruning to encourage new growth and keep the desired shape of plants and shrubs
- Vibrant shrub, tree and spring bulb plantings as well as annual and perennial flowers plantings
- We understand the complex chemistry and biology behind the nutrients in your soil. We’ll explain the work we’re doing with your topsoil and cultivate it to stay healthy
Tree Care
Along with your garden, trees can add value and curb appeal to your property. Besides the visual appeal that comes with professionally installed trees, they are also beneficial in numerous other ways. First and foremost, they create oxygen through the absorption of carbon dioxide. Next, they reduce both air and noise pollution. On top of that they provide shade and cool temperatures which is crucial for hot New England summers. Finally, they compliment your garden which makes your property more welcoming. Harris Lawn & Landscape provides professional tree installation through:
- Maintaining fresh growth and preventing disease with proper pruning
- Providing the best care possible with tree inventories
- Keeping insects and pests away with proactive monitoring of trees
- Removing trees safely with certified arborists
- Providing expertise on the placement of your trees
Tree & Shrub Care Services Provided by Harris Lawn & Landscape
- Tree planting
- Shrub & bush planting
- Perrenial & annual planting
- Ornamental tree pruning
- Tree trimming & pruning
- Shrub trimming, shaping & pruning
- Insect & pest control
- Tree removal
- Stump removal
Put your trees in good hands.
When should i prune my plants?
Good question! Knowing when and how to prune is an important step to keeping a healthy garden.
Perrenials are generally cut back in late fall or early spring. Grasses should be cut close to the ground while butterfly bushes and sage should be cut back to about 4″ tall. This will help produce strong, new stems and the best flower display.
Broad-leafed evergreens should be pruned in the early spring and any winter damaged foilage should be removed at the same time. In the early summer, as new growth begins, hedge and shape as desired. It is always considered best practice to thin the bush to prevent the outer foliage from becoming too thick.
Flowers such as hydrangeas and roses which are summer blooming should be cut back as desired while removing dead, damaged, or crowded stems in the early spring. Summer-blooming buds on trees, shrubs, and vines develop on new growth. Spring fertilization will maximize the size and number of flowers.
Spring flowering shrubs such as forsynthia, rhododendron, and lilac should be pruned and shaped for size in the early summer, after flowering. These plants grow buds for next years flowers in the summer so if pruning is delayed, you may sacrifice next years flowers. Deadheading is another reccomended practice that will direct growth into buds versus seeds.
Sappy trees such as maples, birches, dogwoods, walnuts, and elms produce sticky sap in the winter and spring so it is reccomended to hold off pruning untill summer or fall.
Deciduous Trees and Evergreens should be pruned in the winter, as the threat of insects and disease is much lower. You can also see the framework of deciduous trees much easier without its leaves. Start by removing any dead, damaged, crossed, or hazardous limbs.
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