Many gardeners say you should wait until the end of winter to prune your rose bushes, but a light cut in the fall can help ...

As the warm summer breeze fades and is replaced by the increasingly cooler fall temperatures, you may be thinking about what ...

Pruning is essential to many rose species' health - but pruning with the right technique, at the right time, is even more essential. Here's what to know.

Correct pruning of raspberry bushes is essential. Pruning produces higher yields, helps control diseases and facilitates harvesting and other maintenance chores.

After a tall tree in my garden developed a split, I had it removed last May (with city approval), revealing a large overgrown ...

Pruning certain shrubs in the fall encourages new growth that winter temperatures will damage and, for many shrubs, reduces ...

End of winter is the best time of year to prune shrubs that flower later in the growing season, i.e. from mid-June and after. The reason is that later-flowering shrubs bloom on “new wood.” This means ...

Prune roses in fall for shaping or in spring for strong growth—timing depends on your climate. Trim lightly through summer to boost blooms and keep shape.

Don’t prune your forsythia, lilac or mock orange yet. Anything you cut off now will result in that much less of a flower show this spring. Except for these and many other spring-flowering shrubs, ...

Hey gardeners! Valentine’s day is close at hand…and so is spring! The weather has moderated a bit and become a little more spring-like and who knows, maybe our final round of cold weather has passed.

Hostas don't need much more than an annual pruning. Find out when and how to accomplish this task so that it's most ...

Pruning climbing roses is very different from pruning bush roses. For one thing, we rarely cut them back hard the way we do bush roses. That would defeat the purpose of planting a climbing rose — to ...