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Spring is in the air! The birds are chirping, and the bees and lawnmowers are buzzing. And you’re saying to yourself, “It’s time to pretty up my land with some vivid flowers or tasty tomatoes!” But before you start your Spring landscape glow-up, Southern Love wants to help you with your Spring cleanup to prepare the land for all the wonderful things coming. Spring cleaning is all about “out with the old and in the new,” and that’s just as necessary for outside your home as inside of it. So what does your property need to be completed so you can start enjoying your Spring? Today Southern Love will break down the basic of Spring Cleanup for your West Lake Hills landscape.
What Is Spring Cleanup?
Spring cleanup is the catchall term for all the tasks we must complete to prepare your yard for Spring. Each season leaves a mess for the next season, so we need to make room before we can do anything new. This rule of thumb is true in all areas of your property.
Flower Beds
Your flower beds are the sites of some of the most detailed Spring cleanups. Since they’re such a significant piece of the show that is your landscape, we perform several tasks within them to get them ready for Spring.Bring Out Your Dead
The first step for prepping your beds for Spring is getting rid of anything that didn’t survive the winter. Even though our winters aren’t particularly harsh around these parts, not every plant makes it through. Annuals only last a season by nature, and perennials can run into problems that take them out early too. Dead flowers are not an attractive sight for your yard, and the space they take up could better be used for something living. Unfortunately, they also may attract pests. In addition to pulling up all the dead plants still in the ground, we’ll remove any dead plant matter accumulated around your gardens.Pruning
As for your flowers that made it through the winter, they could also use a little TLC. Survival doesn’t mean remaining fully intact. Any dead or diseased pieces of the flowers and other plants need to be pruned away. Pruning ensures that your plants look vibrant and stay healthy. Removing the sick pieces prevents the disease from spreading to the rest of the plants. One specific form of pruning that is a part of flower bed cleanup throughout the Spring is deadheading. That’s when we remove the spent blossoms from flowers to send energy back to the rest of the plant.Mulching
Of course, some parts of your garden never were alive. But the mulch you use to protect your flowerbeds is still valuable. Even when it breaks down, it serves to feed your plants, but that doesn’t mean it doesn’t need replacing! While cleaning up your garden beds, we’ll check where your mulch is a little thin and re-mulch wherever necessary.Shrubs
Your shrubs need most of the same care as your flower beds. They, too, have mulch that should be reapplied, and early Spring is an excellent time to check on their health. Shrubs need pruning just like your flowers to keep them healthy and trim for their Spring and Summer debut.Lawn
Your lawn and the rest of your property need a thorough once-over. So before Spring gets underway, Southern Love will take the time to review your grass and collect any accumulated plant debris from the winter.
Of course, having dead plant matter all over your land is an eyesore, but plant debris is problematic for several other reasons. For one, depending on the nature of what’s on the lawn, it can potentially damage your lawn mower. That would be true more of sticks than leaves, though.
But even leaves and soft plant parts can damage your lawn when they accumulate. That’s because they block sunlight and water from reaching the living plants that need them. They trap moisture on the grass, creating mold and killing your lawn.