January

• Recycle your Christmas tree. Use boughs and greens as a mulch for evergreen or shallow rooted perennials. Place the rest near a birdfeeder as a windbreak
• Brush snow off evergreen shrubs and trees. Don't touch ice-covered shrubs and trees-you may cause damage or crack the branches
• Prune shade and ornamental trees (except maple, birch and walnut)
• If temperatures are mild for a few days, spray evergreens with anti-desiccant (Wilt-Pruf) to prevent winter burn
• Keep salt away from plants and planting beds
• Revise garden and perennial border layouts. Maybe include an herb garden
• Green View can help you expand your gardening library

February

• Prune fruit trees, grape vines and bramble fruits
• Force cuttings of forsythia, lilac and pussy willow
• Inventory landscaping and gardening supplies for spring. See our selection of garden tools
• Green View has gifts for your sweetheart
• For fresh new concepts, visit us at garden shows and our garden seminars

March

• Fertilize trees and shrubs (high nitrogen for trees). Try tree and shrub food or Natural Nitrogen
• Just before buds open, spray dormant oil for scale and overwintering insects
• Transplant flowering plants before they leaf out
• Remove mulch from roses, prune just before buds break
• When the forsythias bloom in the late March/early April, the temperatures are ideal to apply crabgrass preventer/lawn food. Avoid treating areas to be seeded
• Sow grass seed in late March or early April - don't forget seed starter fertilizer
• Purchase a do-it-yourself lawn care program or allow the professionals at Green View to maintain your lawn for you
• For your home or business, contact one of our landscape architects to create a plan or revitalize your existing landscape and garden

April

• Apply soil amendments and fertilizers to beds. Mulch or compost beds to conserve moisture and discourage weeds. Weed preventer may be necessary. Avoid disturbing late emerging perennials
• Divide and move perennials. Work in compost, bone meal and soil amendments (mushroom compost)
• Stake tall and heavy perennials
• Start to monitor your landscape plantings to minimize damage from pests and diseases.
• Plant annual flowers and try our annual and perennial planting mix. Be ready to cover the annuals if there is a late frost
• Start seeds indoors 4 weeks prior to planting out
• Remove any winter protection
• Begin mowing at 2.5-3" the last half of April
• Check out dozens of sizes and varieties of annuals; plus grass seed, trees, shrubs, fertilizers, tools and supplies

May

• Prune spring flowering trees and shrubs after they finish flowering. Stop by and choose from our line of Felco pruners and other garden tools
• Apply borer control to birch trees
• Plant new trees and shrubs
• Cultivate flower and shrub borders
• Apply a second application of lawn fertilizer, and spot treat with broadleaf weed control where needed
• Start up irrigation systems.

June

• Prune spent flower heads from shrubs and perennials to encourage growth and rebloom
• Apply plant food to annual flowers and vegetables. Fish emulsion and organic fertilizers are ideal
• Fertilize roses monthly and watch for disease and insects. Use rose food with systemic insecticide
• Start pinching mums, stop in early to mid July
• Allow bulb foliage to ripen and whither before removal

July

• Deep water trees and shrubs during times of extreme heat or drought.
• Prune hedges and summer flowering shrubs after flowering
• Enjoy cut garden flowers with our French flower buckets and fine vases. Some of the flowers can be dried for holiday decorating
• Continue weeding
• Keep the lawn well watered during times of heat or drought
• Apply grub control late July/early August.
• Raise mower height to 3-4" during dry weather
• Talk to our irrigation designers about an in-ground, automatic sprinkler system
• Ask us about our Gazebos, perfect for shade, garden parties and more
• Garden Rewards Redemption Day July 31

August

• Cut and dry straw flowers and everlastings
• Pick fresh herbs for brewing herbal vinegars
• Begin to harvest and dry herbs and flowers for winter

September

• Divide and move perennials. Work in compost, bone meal and soil amendments
• Plant colorful fall mums
• Plant bulbs for spring color; we have a fine selection of bulbs, tools and bulb food
• Protect flowers and vegetables against early frost
• Begin fall grass seeding, in early September
• Apply broadleaf weed control

October

• Transplant dormant deciduous trees and shrubs
• Continue to plant bulbs. Don't forget bone meal or bulb food
• Mark late emerging perennials to avoid damage from spring cultivating
• This is the ideal time to transplant and divide peonies and iris, amend soil with bone meal
• Dig and store dahlia, canna, and gladiola bulbs
• Cut perennials 3-4" to clean up beds and prevent disease. Let those that provide winter interest remain until spring
• Apply fall lawn fertilizer or winterizer at end of month
• Rake up leaves, grass clippings and debris; use as mulch or build a compost heap. Ask us about our compost bins and natural guard compost maker
• Winterize your irrigation system (Call Green View for assistance and advice)
• Look to Green View for Holiday decorating ideas, seminars and gifts

November

• Plant freshly dug trees from Green View.
• Protect shade trees, ornamentals and fruit trees from trunk damage with tree wrap or tree guards
• Spray evergreens, especially broadleafs, with anti-desiccant (Wilt-Pruf) to prevent winter burn
• Water and mulch evergreens
• Prune heavy bleeding trees like walnut, maple and birch as they go dormant
• Continue planting spring bulbs. Fertilize with bulb food or bone meal
• Protect roses by mounding hardwood mulch over grafts n Continue cutting perennials to 3-4"
• Pot bulbs for inside forcing
• Mulch perennial beds with hardwood or cypress mulch
• Clean and store garden tools
• Lower mower height to 1-2" setting for last cutting
• Clean and service lawn mower
• Drain and store hoses, sprinklers, etc.
• Fresh cut Christmas trees for sale after Thanksgiving Day
• Holiday Decorating Seminars from designing with wreaths to trimming trees - watch for times and dates
• Look for our Holiday Preview Party and Holiday Open House

December

• Unique and charming holiday decorations. Fresh cut Christmas trees, wreaths, poinsettias, roping and more
• Gardening gifts from Haws Watering Cans to Felco pruners, statuary, furniture and gardening pins

* see our plant care sheets for more information