Q: When is it too late to use a dormant oil spray? I have a couple of apple trees. Can I use this dormant oil spray on other trees like my maples and my evergreens? If I mix up too much, I want to use ...

Trees in fall are in a state of serious change and reorganization. The tree is becoming dormant. A tree heading toward winter will sense the changing temperature and light and obey the dormancy ...

As the vibrant colors of fall fade and winter approaches, Seattle’s trees and shrubs enter a period of rest. Dormant pruning, trimming trees and shrubs during the period when they are not actively ...

dormant suggests the inactivity of something (such as a feeling or power) as though sleeping.

Something that is dormant is not active or growing but has the ability to be active at a later…. Learn more.

Dormant comes from French dormir, "to sleep," and it refers to living things that are on a break rather than things that have died. Being dormant is being temporarily at rest, although sometimes, as with some cancer cells, things become permanently — and thankfully — dormant.

Grass goes dormant during the winter, waiting for spring before it grows again. The bank account was dormant; there had been no transactions in months. This volcano is dormant but not extinct.

The part of me that has always adjusted to expecting and preparing myself for the worst was dormant.