These 5 tips might cause extreme beautification in your yard! 1. Remove old leaves in the shrub beds before adding mulch. 2. In newly landscape beds (3 years or less) consider using pre-emergent weed control before adding mulch. 3. Use a pre-emergent weed control on your warm season lawns, like Bermuda and Zoysia. Doing this will keep your warm season weeds, like crab grass, in check. 4. Now is the time plant trees! 5. The time has come to prune down your ornamental grasses, Liriope, also called Monkey grass. You can also prune your roses now.