PRECISION PRUNING February 2009
Winter ... the season for pruning:
So many plants to prune and so little time. The rollercoaster of temperatures in Atlanta area make it hard to plan the proper times to prune, but we work around the difficulty every winter, and nature has a way of working it all out. Many remember the mid April freeze of 2007. That freeze did more damage than I had ever seen. You could say the A,B,C's and find a plant in every letter group affected by that late hard freeze. It was a year to understand why the old saying is valid, "don't plant your summer annuals til after April 15th". After the late freeze of April '07, I think we could move that date back a few more days to the 20th, just to be safe. In any case, we can't predict mother nature. She has her moods, and every year, every season is different. Part of the wonder of living in beautiful Atlanta.
February 04, 2009 at 08:10 PM