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Spring Gardening

VPM | By Bryant Dameron

Published May 11, 2023 at 10:13 AM EDT

Close up of the tip of a tree branch with new buds forming. — Bud break is one seasonal change tracked by phenology.

Learn pruning techniques and how to time spring gardening tasks with phenology. Visit Leslie Harris’ garden in Charlottesville to talk about pruning popular landscape shrubs. Learn about observing the signs of spring and how the study of phenology can help time garden tasks with Laurel Matthew of Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden.

Serome Hamlin shares spring maintenance tips for dwarf conifers and Amyrose Foll explains the benefits of not waking up spring vegetable beds too early in the season.

Two people stand on either side of a row of boxwoods that have been pruned into rounded form. — Leslie Harris explains the importance of pruning boxwood to promote airflow to Keith Nevison.

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