Hello friends welcome to Gardening with Creekside I am Jenny and today I have one very simple task ahead
of me trim these unruly boxwoods that we have in front of our house if you remember this past
summer we had three yellowjackets nest in separate boxwoods here in front of our house hence why they
are they are large and in charge and a bit out of control so now that spring is knocking on
our door I am ready to go ahead and trim these um we've had these in front of our house gosh I don't
know we've been in our house for 18 years we've probably had them at least for 10 to 12 years we
don't remember what the name of them what the name of what what their name is what variety are they
what cultivar we don't remember we think probably they're winter gems I do not fertilize them they
are not on irrigation the only thing that i do is trim them once a year which i missed last year
because of the yellow jackets i've been waiting all winter to do it and now is the perfect time
and how do i know it's the perfect time well let me show you how i know that the reason that i know
it's a perfect time to go ahead and trim them is because we are coming out of winter we are going
into spring which means we are entering into their um growing season and in fact they already have
some new growth popping out on them so i know that i can go ahead get them trimmed get them shaped
because as you can see here they're starting to kind of overtake the landscape lighting they're
uneven they just clearly need to be shaped up i am not going to prune them as severely as i did the
sunshine ligustrums but i am going to give them a nice healthy trim and i will be using my fantastic
steel trimmer i love this thing it is it is just easy to use again it is electric
you press a button it turns on you take your hand off it turns off there you go easy peasy and then
i have my rakes here that i can clean up my mess so i am just going to give them a nice
shape get them all about the same height and filled you know nice and shaped good looking good
we'll go from there all right let's get to trimming
so
all right friends so we're halfway done now i by no means am a box pruning artiste but they
certainly look a whole lot better than those unruly ones down there of course we'll do the
fine tuning to make sure that they're all you know about the same height jerry's really good about
that so all the same height and shape so forth and so on but look at these now come look at these
yeah a little a little wild a little out of control so let's tackle this side
now
do
all right friends uh we have got the quick project of trimming up the boxwoods done for
this afternoon it turned out to be a family affair jerry got home and had all sorts of fun helpers
out here with me today now what we're going to do as far as the rest of this bed so today we're
done all i wanted to do was trim and clean up so mission accomplished we are going to come back
in the next coming soon time and we're going to take the edger and we're going to edge both of
these beds so that we have a nice hard line against the mulch bed and the grass because
knowing that we're going into summer and the big growing season i want to have a nice defined edge
so we will edge both of these beds and go on down to the bed in front of the horseman
and the tea olives and on around to the back patio then once we have that edged and cleaned up
because we have to kind of you know move the soil around we'll come back and do a final nice
dressing of some fresh mulch so that will be our mulch application for the first time in uh
i don't think we yeah we probably did mulch last year so um but the box words were so big and we
hadn't trimmed them so anyway we do a nice little top dress of mulch about once a year
and so we'll kind of time that hopefully so that we can do fresh mulch all around and
it will just dress the area up but right now we are done for the day and we are super excited as
i was uh trimming megan was on the porch and she was like oh i can see i can see the yard so
yeah get out there and trim you boxwoods people but anyway uh as always thanks so
much for joining the creekside y'all have a great day we'll see you next video bye friends