When it comes to garden upkeep, many plants and trees in your yard do well with a yearly cut back. Some love a tidy up in the cold winter months, while there are other plants you should be pruning in ...

Late winter is not too early to start pruning most evergreens in the South, but you will regret pruning spring bloomers. Here's when and how to prune.

This week’s final article on pruning focuses on evergreen trees. There is a big difference in timing the pruning of pines versus spruces and others. Pruning pines at the wrong time means no more ...

The next few weeks are some of the year’s best for pruning landscape plants – mainly woody-stemmed ones that already have bloomed for the year, as well as most needled evergreens. Spring-blooming ...

Pruning is an important way to keep your plants healthy and looking beautiful. But pruning after a rainstorm can have the opposite effect. Whether you're pruning shrubs or trees, in the spring or fall ...

Before plants leaf out for the spring, it’s a good idea to take some time for maintenance tasks in the garden. Here are two important items to put on your to-do list: pruning and fertilizing your ...

As you start to notice the warm and verdant hints of spring's arrival, it's tempting to grab our garden tools and head outside to tackle the first round of cleanup. When it comes to tidying your ...

Winter is when I do most of my fruit tree pruning. Why most and not all? In which part of winter? First, let’s answer this foundational question, “Why do we prune fruit trees?” Because it’s unwise to ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... January is a highly beneficial time to prune trees and shrubs because this is the dormant period for many plants in coastal California. This column provides ...

Are you one of the many gardeners who worry about pruning a plant and causing damage? Don’t be. Pruning can be easy if you know a little bit about what you are doing.

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