November is the start of pruning season for many deciduous trees and shrubs that enter their dormancy when the cold weather arrives. It is also an ideal time to trim perennials that shone during ...
Regular pruning is key to keeping your rosemary bush healthy and encouraging growth. Every couple of months, trim back about a third of the plant's active growth to maintain its shape and size.
Left unpruned, it can become straggly and bare at the base. Even with regular trimming, it is often best to replace rosemary every five years or so with a new young plant, and luckily it’s very easy ...
especially if you've been reading about the plants to prune in November, and it's a key step in pruning forsythias, too. In a nutshell, the three Ds stand for dead, damaged and diseased growth, all of ...
Unlike bush roses, the more you cut back modern shrub and English roses, the more leafy growth they'll produce at the expense of blooms. They need an established framework of branching stems on which ...
Pruning serves many purposes: it encourages bigger yields, ensures that newly planted trees and shrubs have a strong beginning, stimulates flowering, shapes plants, cuts away diseased wood ...
As panicle hydrangeas flower on new wood, annual pruning will produce a flush of new stems to carry the year’s flowers. When planning when to prune hydrangeas, it will depend on the type you are ...