Part of maintaining an attractive yard means keeping up with tasks like pruning bushes and sculpting shrubs. While it’s important to focus on larger cut-downs in the fall for a deeper cut back ahead of winter, you’ll want to prune small trees as part of your summer maintenance work. Our experienced team can help keep your residential yard or commercial landscaping looking its best with regular trimming services.

Benefits of Bush & Shrub Trimming

Pruning bushes and sculpting shrubs will cut back on potential tripping or snagging hazards. Regular trimming prevents bushes or shrubs from getting in the way of people and vehicles, especially along commercial sidewalks. It also stops shrubs and bushes from becoming overgrown, which can lead to crowding out other plants or even impacting parts of your home.

 Trimming your hedges in the spring enables us to take out any dead or broken branches that have been caused by the harsh weather in winter months. Hedges slow down its growth during late summer and therefore, it is the optimal time for a second trim to keep its shape until next spring.

When to Sculpt Shrubs or Prune Small Trees and Bushes

We recommend regular hedge and shrub trimming twice a year in most cases.  For the most part, you’ll first want to trim bushes and shrubs or prune smaller trees during late-Spring to early-Summer months, after the initial growth season has slowed. We typically then return towards the end of the season towards Fall to perform more strategic shaping to contain and properly promote new growth for next year.

When performing shrub trimming, there are certain types of shrubs that are best to be trimmed in particular seasons of the year:

• Spring is a great time to start the process of shrub trimming and at this time is a great opportunity to be aggressive with cutting back shrubs before foliage and growth begins.   At this time we will trim your shrubs into the ideal form for the best image.
• Summer time is also a good time for trimming, as long as we avoid the few hot weeks we see during July and August.  
• Fall is then the best time to stop back to trim back your shrubs and prep them for the winter months.  The focus is to trim your shrubs back more than usual.  This helps the shrubs by not supporting an excessive amount of snow on them during the winter.

Commercial and Residential Bush & Shrub Trimming

We recommend setting up an annual maintenance plan when it comes to commercial customers. We’ll talk with you about your commercial bush and shrub trimming needs to form an initial plan, then we’ll come out to your business automatically on a scheduled basis to keep your landscaping looking sharp all season long.

Shrub Trimming is the final touch in creating great curb appeal for your home or business.  Left untrimmed, shrubs will begin to grow into a sloppy appearance, and when left unattended too long, can actually cause irreversible damage that can only be remedied with replacement.

Knowledge is Key

Understanding the many varieties of bushes and shrubs is essential to providing them with lasting health and avoiding irreversible damage.  Certain varieties thrive after being cut back aggressively, while others can withstand only an inch or so of surface leaves to be trimmed before bare spots would show.  Knowing that every yard's combination is different, be sure to entrust this service to someone who fully understands and considers your variety of species before pulling out the shears or trimmer!