Growing fruit trees indoors can transform even the coziest corners of your home into a verdant personal orchard. Even better, ...

Found yourself with a garden full of overgrown trees and shrubs? It’s time to give them a haircut through pruning. Pruning ...

While most pruning work is done in the dormant season, these plants rely on a mid-summer trim to keep them healthy and ensure ...

We recently purchased a home with a lot of overgrown shrubs. They cover part of our front windows and grow over the walks. They are also very crowded. We are not sure how much we can prune them. Are t ...

Prune individual shrub branches one at a time. Prune down to a side branch an inch or more inside the shrub. If the branches are too thick, remove some branches all the way to where they start.

If you prune spring bloomers in fall, winter, or early spring before the plants flower, you’ll cut off the buds and get no blooms that year. That’s why you wait until right after flowering to cut.

Growing Concerns: Spring flowering shrubs need pruning If you want blooms next year, prune now Denise Hodgins • Special to The London Free Press ...

Pruning is also a great way to retain the natural form of the shrub by shortening branches. And, finally, pruning usually increases the size and quality of blooms. By not pruning, some shrubs soon ...

Lifestyle Gardening Gardeners told to carry out important task on 3 plants to 'guarantee summer-long blooms' Pruning plants in June can seem like a daunting task, but it's crucial to ensure your ...

Gardeners need to prune their spring-flowering deciduous shrubs as soon as they are finished flowering. That's according to Diarmuid Gavin who listed the main ones to keep an eye on this month ...

Lilacs are one of the key plants to cut back now. These popular shrubs bloom in late spring, and if you wait too long to prune, you risk removing the buds that are already forming for next year.