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month after the coldest weather is past in your area. In the cooler mountain areas of Virginia, wait until late February. Wait until after bloom to prune your springflowering shrubs in order to get maximum blossoms.
• Root pruning will enhance success of transplanting trees and shrubs, if you can w ait until next year to move them. This spring use a sharp spade to cut a circle eight inches deep around the plant. Distance from the trunk will depend on plant size; a small shrub may only require a circle of one foot in diameter, while a larger plant will require a larger circle.
Many new, Fibrous roots will grow from the cut ends of the old roots. This will make transplanting to the new location next spring much easier on the plant, because a greater percentage of its roots will move with it. Dig the root ball so it is several inches wider in diameter than the root pruning circle.
• Water shrubs in your landscape throughout the winter if the soil is dry. Evergreen plants transpire water from their leaves whenever the air temperature is above 40 degrees Fahrenheit.
• As you travel this spring,
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