Check Trees for Damage and Cankers
Watch out for damage and diseases on deciduous trees: cankers may be a problem.
Watch out for damage and diseases on deciduous trees: cankers may be a problem.
In colder areas, you can still plant container-grown deciduous hedging plants, shrubs, trees and climbers.
Deciduous hedging plants, shrubs, trees and climbers can still be planted.
Watch out for coral spot: this disease is often noticed while the leaves are off deciduous hedges, shrubs and trees.
Now is a good time to move established deciduous trees and shrubs, provided the ground is not frozen or waterlogged.
Packing the branches of tender deciduous trees and shrubs with straw or bracken will protect them from frost.
Pruning and renovation of many deciduous trees, shrubs and hedges can still be carried out now.
Deciduous shrubs can be transplanted now: however established trees and shrubs should be only moved if necessary.
Most deciduous trees can be pruned now: do it before Christmas as later pruning can result in bleeding.
A deciduous tree should be pruned now if it has dead, diseased, crossing or torn branches or if it outgrows its space.