Whether you grow the firecracker plant in flower beds, rock gardens, or containers, pruning after flowering helps ensure they ...

Pruning is a popular winter gardening task, but we thought we'd take a look at the plants you should never prune in December ...

Your grass isn’t the only thing that needs an occasional trim if you’re trying to keep your landscape looking its best. Your plants also need some care. Pruning 101 explains how to trim bushes, hedges ...

Our gardens can seem inhospitable places during the depths of winter; light levels are at their lowest point, and there’s ...

There are hundreds of different shrubs within the Berberis genus and all will benefit from annual pruning. But exactly when and how do you prune barberry? Knowing when to prune shrubs is important to ...

Winter might feel like a time for your garden to rest, but it’s actually the perfect season to get stuck into some hard ...

Q: My hollies have lots of red berries on them this year, but they’re covering part of my windows so I want to prune them. Is ...

Removes spent flowers: Small flowering trees or large flowering shrubs often benefit from deadheading — removing faded flowers after they bloom. Promotes fruiting: Fruiting trees should be pruned to ...

Winter winds can be particularly hard on broadleaf evergreen plants, causing plants to lose moisture from the foliage. This ...

Pruning fruit trees in late winter during the dormant season can promote rampant upright “water sprout” growth, which might ...

Timing is everything when it comes to pruning a crape myrtle. So when is it too late to prune crape myrtles if you want ...

Any pruning tools must be clean and sharp to ensure they cut smoothly and don’t spread diseases around the garden. So always ...