You may have heard that pruning spruce trees in the landscape is an important way of maintaining their health, size, shape, and vigor. But this is more applicable to deciduous trees than evergreens.

Q: I have volunteered to help our church with yard maintenance. I need to trim back all the bushes, but my concern is the blue spruce tree. It is a very nice tree, but it is growing over the parking ...

Prune lavender (Lavandula angustifolia) lightly after bloom, while deferring moderate pruning until spring. (Jacquelyne S. Collins) We're well into fall and the questions keep coming. Get answers from ...

Q: I have a question I am hoping you can help me with. We have four very large blue spruce in our front yard. During the last few years the bottom branches having begun showing a lot of bare spots and ...

Q. I have a couple of blue spruce trees. Someone told me to trim the bottom two layers of branches that are touching the ground. Is this a common practice/procedure and/or is there any benefit to the ...

Q: I read your column every week. The question I have concerns a blue spruce hedge. The hedge runs along the side of our property that stretches about 50 metres containing about 30-40 trees. They were ...

A: If you prune the spruce, cut the branches back to the main trunk to save time, trouble and the frustration of having to go back and do it again in a few years. I promise it will not hurt the tree ...