Landscape Care / Maintenance Calendar

• Apply deer repellent
• Clean/sharpen/oil tools

• Apply deer repellent
• Check stored dahlias, cannas, tender bulbs for desiccation - moisten storage medium slightly
• Prune fruit trees to enhance fruit production (make sure temperature is above 20 degrees)

• Apply deer repellent
• Cut back ornamental grasses to new shoots and any other perennials left up for winter interest
• Schedule spring fertilization for trees/shrubs
• Apply pre-emergent herbicides to lawns/beds (before mid-April for crab grass)
• Press back into ground any frost-heaved perennials
• Complete pruning on summer flowering trees and shrubs before new growth begins
• Prune evergreen or deciduous hedges
• Trim away damaged foliage on hellebores
• Prune Forsythia as soon as flowers drop
• Mow Liriope

• Weed
• Apply deer repellent
• Prune roses (except spring blooming ramblers), butterfly bush, red-stem dogwood
• Remove winter killed growth from climbing and rambling roses
• Finish cleaning out flowerbeds
• Divide perennials/transplant
• Mark bulb clumps that produce few flowers but lots of foliage, these clumps need to be divided in the fall ideally
• Prolong bouquets of daffodils by cutting stems of unopened flowers to bring inside

• Weed
• Apply deer repellent
• Plant perennials, annuals, and containers
• Move or remove unwanted perennials seedlings
• Remove suckers from cherry and other ornamental trees
• Prune spring flowering shrubs right after their blossoms fade
• Sow seeds for bachelor buttons, nasturtiums, sun flowers directly in beds
• Start vegetable garden (beans, corn, cucumber, squash, melons)
• Fertilize shrubs and trees
• Put slug control in place

• Weed
• Apply deer repellent
• Apply pre-emergent herbicides to lawns/beds
• Finish planting by mid June ideally
• Finish fertilizing shrubs and trees
• Start deadheading perennials
• Prune evergreens now or in October
• Shear deciduous or evergreen hedges
• Prune mature climbing roses (2-3 years or older)
• Prune rambling roses after bloom
• Pinch back coleus
• Shape Amsonia and Baptisia at the end of June

• Weed/Water as needed
• Apply deer repellent
• Pinch back Mums and Asters for last time before July 4th
• Divide day lilies when they are finished blooming
• Continue deadheading perennials
• Prune summer flowering shrubs and trees as blossoms fade

• Weed/Water as needed
• Apply deer repellent
• Continue deadheading perennials
• Divide iris, poppies and peonies
• Design beds and order plants for autumn planting
• Combat powdery mildew with homemade or commercial spray

• Weed/Water plants deeply in dry weather
• Apply deer repellent
• Apply pre-emergent herbicides to lawns/beds
• Continue deadheading perennials
• Plant new evergreen trees and shrubs
• Design and plant bulbs
• Plant pansies and mums
• Aerate, over-seed bare spots on lawn
• Divide perennials (except for fall bloomers)
• Take cuttings of basil, coleus, tender geraniums to grow inside fro next season

• Weed/Water plants deeply in dry weather
• Apply deer repellent
• Plant/transplant deciduous shrubs by early October
• Divide perennials (except for fall bloomers) finish by end of October
• Finish bulb planting
• Plant fall containers in early October
• Prune long rose canes
• Leaf clean-up

• Weed/Water plants if needed
• Apply deer repellent
• Plant winter containers
• Cut perennials to the ground except for those left up for winter interest
• Continue mowing grass until it stops growing
• Mulch boxwoods and evergreens after ground freezes
• Leaf clean-up

• Apply deer repellent
• Prune berried or evergreen shrubs or trees by harvesting for holiday decorations