During these cold winter months, it can be difficult to feel like spring is around the corner. Bright green grass, trees budding, early spring flowers popping through the soil to remind us that warmer weather is slowing making an appearance and bringing all the beauty with it are a foreign concept but we assure you, it’s coming!
With spring around the corner, I’m sure your significant other has a honey-do list a mile long and there are high expectations attached. Yard work, house painting, continuing new year’s goals- the list goes on.
The Kansas City metro area is currently considered to be abnormally dry on the drought scale. Depending on how much snow and precipitation we get over the coming months, this could change at any time. It’s important to have the right tools to use in case of a dry winter. Trees and plants continue to need moisture during the winter, just not as much as during the warmer seasons. Often times winter watering can be considered silly to your neighbor, but just might be the key to healthier plants and trees when Spring comes around.
We just recently shared the news about the Farmer’s Almanac predicting snow in our near future (Click here to read). Many of you took our advice and requested to have one of our professional arbor consultants perform a risk assessment on your Kansas City trees, turns out almost everyone’s trees needed a good trim here in Kansas City! Although, that was expected there were quite a few trees that needed removed too (you know who you are).
Why do we suggest Kansas City homeowners have their trees trimmed in winter? Anybody?
It’s true! The Farmer’s Almanac is predicting snow for our region this year! You know what that means? It’s time to make sure your trees are in tip-top shape before mother nature does her work.