Improve your garden with this practical gardening compilation featuring tips on creating beautiful flower beds with varying ...

Shrubs never stay the way they look when you first plant them. Many popular landscape shrubs grow a foot or two a year, quickly overtaking everything around them. Before you know it, they're blocking ...

Pruning is my favorite gardening task by far, and the winter dormant season is a great time to prune trees and shrubs. You can heavily prune overgrown deciduous woody shrubs up until new growth begins ...

If you have an overgrown forsythia or lilac, now is the time to get it under control by using proper pruning techniques. It’s not uncommon for some of these large shrubs to get out of hand, especially ...

Pruning decisions should be based on local weather and plant dormancy, not the calendar. Identify if a shrub blooms on old or new wood to determine the correct pruning time. Shrubs that bloom on new ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The process for pruning blueberry bushes is different from many other plants. Trimming doesn't simply maintain their shape or ...

After our colder winter months, it’s time to start thinking about pruning the shrubs in the yard and remove any cold damage or just to renovate, reduce size and prepare them for the summer growing ...

Pruning is my favorite gardening task by far. I prune plants that have gotten overgrown very aggressively, and I suspect that will be the best approach for you, too. Most gardeners are hesitant to ...

Heat, drought, and pest obstacles aside, landscape plants now have completed most of this season’s growth. The result in some cases is a landscape that’s blown past ideal sizes and is now bordering on ...