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Are your foundation plantings blocking your windows?
Is your favorite Japanese maple losing branches because of the weight of snow? Has your forsythia hedge become too wild and woody?
Cheshire Cat Organic Gardens can prune your favorite shrubs and small trees so that they retain their natural shape.

Late winter/early spring is a wonderful time to prune some deciduous shrubs and trees. While the trees are bare it is easier to see broken or diseased branches, branches that are crossing and rubbing, water sprouts and the overall shape of the plant. The plant is dormant during the winter so pruning is less stressful.

Plants that benefit from a winter pruning are the rose, red-twig dogwood, potentilla, spiraea, Harry Lauder's walking stick, rose-of-Sharon, sweet pepperbush, hawthorn, dogwood tree, crabapple, mountain ash and Japanese maple.

Plants that should be pruned later in the year are lilacs, forsythia, mountain laurels, mock oranges, pieris, rhododendrons and viburnums. These plants should not be pruned until after they have flowered.