With the winter season approaching here in Arizona, cleaning up your landscape beds is essential, not just for curb appeal but for their health, too. One task you'll want to do before winter is trimming and pruning, which enhances the shape of your plants and bolsters their health. Meanwhile, cleaning up twigs, leaves, and other debris from your landscape beds will ensure vital resources can reach them. Finally, refreshing your ground cover will protect the roots of your plants from fluctuating temperatures, suppress weeds, and retain moisture. By providing your landscape beds with some much-needed TLC before winter arrives, you can give them the best chance of surviving until the following spring.

Trimming & Pruning Your Plants Before Winter Will Get Them in Great Shape & at Their Healthiest

A vital maintenance task you'll want to do before winter arrives is trimming and pruning your plants. Trimming involves cutting back stray branches and overgrowth to enhance their shape and visual appeal. However, it also allows more sunlight to filter through and reach all areas of your plants, plus it improves air circulation.

On the other hand, pruning involves removing dead, damaged, diseased, or insect-infested parts so the issue doesn't spread to the rest of the plant. As a result, it makes more room for new, fuller growth. When you trim and prune your plants ahead of winter, you can get them in great shape and at their healthiest, setting them up for success while dormant.

Cleaning Up Debris From Your Landscape Beds Will Improve Resource Access for Your Plants

Cleaning up debris from your landscape beds is a must before winter. Twigs, sticks, leaves, and other debris can accumulate over time, and this clutter acts as a barrier, preventing sunlight and nutrients from reaching the soil and inhibiting proper air circulation. Without access to these resources, your plants may become weak and more susceptible to issues during the winter. Not only that, but it also creates the perfect shelter for insects and makes your landscape beds look messy.

To ensure your plants receive everything they need to stay healthy, it's important to clean up any debris from your softscapes before winter. That way, they have improved access to the resources they need, your landscape looks neat, and pests don't make a home out of the debris.

Refreshing the Ground Cover in Your Landscape Beds Before Winter Will Benefit Plant Health

To benefit the health of your plants before winter, you should refresh the ground cover in your landscape beds. Not only will refreshing your ground cover bolster the curb appeal of your softscapes, but it also provides numerous health perks that are especially beneficial during the winter. For example, it'll protect the roots of your plants from fluctuating temperatures by regulating soil temperature, suppress weed growth so they don't steal vital nutrients, and retain moisture to keep them hydrated for longer. With a fresh ground cover, you can help your plants survive dormancy and keep your landscape beds pristine.

You can choose from two types of ground covers to suit your preferences for your landscape beds: mulch and rock.

Call us today to sign up for our fall cleanup service!

At Divine Design Landscaping, we offer our fall cleanup service to help prepare your yard for the upcoming winter season. With this service, our team will perform tasks like lawn mowing, landscape bed reshaping, plant trimming and pruning, and debris cleanup. Additionally, we can refresh your ground cover via our mulch or rock installation services. Our fall cleanups are available to commercial and residential properties in Phoenix, Laveen, Scottsdale, AZ, and surrounding areas. Call us today at (602) 769-4564 to sign up!