When you grow ornamental grasses, they don't need pruning in the fall ... deciduous grasses back to the base and remove dead leaves from evergreen grasses. Loropetalum is a genus of four shrub species ...

Now is the time for some winter pruning on ornamental shrubs and trees. From December to late March is the perfect time to prune most (but not all) of your trees and shrubs. There are several reasons ...

As temperatures cool down, the garden seems to come alive again, especially with the recent rains. Dahlias, zinnias, and ...

LET’S REVIEW A perfect and a little-known method which is totally appropriate now in the month of October. I have numerous times explained, and rightly so, how pruning at the wrong time of year can ...

I didn’t get around to trimming my overgrown shrubs last fall. Should I prune them now or should I wait until later? I plan to use my new power clippers. The normal growth cycle for spring flowering ...

New growth will fill in, creating a fresh, attractive planting. Evergreen shrubs, such as holly, yaupon, juniper, yew and Indian hawthorne may be lightly pruned and shaped now, if they have grown out ...

As the days get longer, our attention turns to spring chores. One of those is pruning. Late winter is an excellent time to prune many landscape plants, but not all. Late winter is ideal because ...

The cool days of late March and early April offer a great chance to finish pruning your trees and shrubs. When pruning large limbs off trees, begin with an undercut first. This is a cut from the ...

Ornamental grasses provide an easy-to-care-for, beautiful ground cover. Do they need to be pruned, though? The answer might surprise you.

Lots of gardeners are intimidated by the very thought of pruning. It can be scary. For trees and shrubs that are grown for their flowers, consider when they bloom before deciding when to prune. Snip ...

We usually think of pruning our fruit, nut and ornamental trees as a job for the dormant season, when the sap has retreated. That’s true for many kinds of woody plants, but not all. We usually think ...

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