The best time is early spring, before it leafs out.

The disease is easy to detect after the trees leaf out.

Many trees are in bloom or starting to leaf out.

Each spring, before the plants leaf out, cut them back by half to two-thirds.

I found that in spring the old shoots did not leaf out, although the new growth was healthy.

The plants will not take long to leaf out.

Birches don't usually leaf out this time of year, but these will in a day or two.

But, anyway, I saw now that the tree was not leafed out as it should have been by this time of year.

The trees have started to leaf out, but they're mostly still winter-gray.

The blossoms appear in late spring, weeks after the tree leafs out.

A maple tree, just beginning to leaf out, showed no signs of anything more than a light breeze.

Limiting its landscaping use is the fact that it does not leaf out until very late in the season.

Root pressure is often high in some deciduous trees before they leaf out.

The trees were leafed out but still a shade lighter than they would be later.

The snow was gone, and the woodland hadn't leafed out.

By the time the trees are fully leafed out, the bulb leaves have done most of their work.

It will be quite bright in the spring, but the light reduces sharply as the trees leaf out.

"When they leaf out, they look like fat little fingers."

The lower trunk and the outer canes had yet to leaf out.

A fig grew by the back door, an old, stubborn tree that was slow to leaf out.

It was a soft and misty early spring morning; trees had only just begun to leaf out.

And you must imagine the region as it is in summer, leafed out so that the two houses are quite hidden from each other.

The maple trees have leafed out, and I haven't planted my corn yet.

Most of these bulbs will bloom and be long gone before the trees leaf out to cast their shade.

It showed up black and stark among the dry brown brush not yet leafing out for spring.