Now that they’re all fully trimmed and growth won’t make problems worse, and I added good piles of mulch around the bases (with a layer of bark nuggets on top that will over years decay into the base for more bark nuggets), seeing huge returns on watering trees in terms of summer growth, though I’m sure the relatively cool and moist year helps.

Makes some bushes I’d been trying to trim tight real leggy, though, so hold off on that.

Seem to have finally reshaped the rosebushes out front so I can trim them down for winter and then yearly have them regrow into a small but thick bush, not two or three 5-foot canes.

Reshaping a bush by cutting it back pretty severely then as it regrows trimming the leggy early-season growth so that it comes back in really dense