Avoid these pruning pitfalls for a glorious garden come March ...

If you're hoping for a vibrant garden with lots of blooms this spring, you can prune these 10 plants as early as February.

In February, you can already spot the first signs of the approaching spring. Delicate buds form on branches, and some early ...

Spring is right around the corner, which means February is your final window to tackle key pruning jobs. From wisteria to ...

Make plans now to prune spring-flowering shrubs, such as forsythia, lilac, viburnum and flowering quince, after they finish blooming. “We don’t prune these shrubs in winter because we’d be cutting off ...

Prune these in winter: Birch trees, willows, maples, fruit trees, some hydrangeas, shrub hibiscus, twig dogwoods, shade trees ...

Pruning is my favorite gardening task by far, and the winter dormant season is a great time to prune trees and shrubs. You ...

Pruning deciduous shrubs is essential to keep them looking their best. Pruning is done to maintain or reduce plant size, remove undesirable growth, remove dead, diseased or broken branches, stimulate ...

Sometimes a garden shrub grows too large for its site. It may have long branches blocking a walkway or window. It may be shading out other plants or getting wider and taking over a bed. Or, it may ...

The best time to prune most shrubs is in the winter when the plants are dormant, so you can better see their shape. Which means there are many that you should avoid pruning in the spring—with a few ...

Question: I have two gorgeous, big burning bushes in my yard that are really, really in need of trimming. I don’t want to trim before they put on their autumn show, but I need to know when is the best ...