Prune these shrubs in spring for more flowers this summer.

Found yourself with a garden full of overgrown trees and shrubs? It’s time to give them a haircut through pruning. Pruning helps trees and plants stay healthy, improve growth, and even produce more ...

Experts explain how and when a rejuvenation cut can save a shrub that's gotten out of control ...

Early March pruning can be tricky. Learn how to safely prune your shrubs based on weather, plant type, and goals.

Many shrubs benefit from pruning each year. We prune them to remove stray branches and suckers, keep the plants to a manageable size, and maintain an attractive shape. For some shrubs, pruning also ...

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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 ...

Are you one of the many gardeners who worry about pruning a plant and causing damage? Don’t be. Pruning can be easy if you know a little bit about what you are doing.

The first week of February is all about forsythia and pruning. Forsythia is the bright yellow shrub ready to burst into blooms and you can prune it now to force the flowers into an early show indoors.

There’s an old saying in pruning: “Prune until it hurts, and then prune some more.” The advice helps overcome our fear of cutting away too many branches. Other pruning adages are less useful. “When in ...