A woman prunes a bare fruit tree with shears on a cold winter day with snow on the ground. - Irina Nazarova/Getty Images While the rest of your garden is sleeping peacefully under a blanket of snow or ...
February is a good month to prune deciduous trees in many climates. As they are dormant, they suffer less stress from pruning, and there are fewer pests and diseases around at this time of year.
Warm weather is here, flowers are in full bloom and our lawns are green again. Even so, the February freeze continues to haunt some Houston-area homeowners with potentially dangerous zombie trees.