Seed expert Emily Blaisden also recommends early pruning using the “Chelsea chop” method—removing 1/3 to 1/2 of the plant.

When temperatures finally drop, working in the garden is so much more pleasant. Fall is the perfect time to deadhead annuals to get a few more blooms, plant cool-season flowers and herbs like pansies ...

Key Points Deadhead hydrangeas early; prune timing depends on whether they bloom on new or old wood.Protect plants with mulch, burlap, or cages in cold climates; move potted hydrangeas indoors below ...

Pruning plants can dramatically influence their development in the coming year. Cutting back is crucial for preserving plant wellbeing, vitality, and equilibrium, whilst also stopping larger varieties ...

Pruning plants can have a significant impact on their growth in the year ahead. Pruning is essential for maintaining plant health, vigour, and balance, as well as preventing larger species from taking ...

The proper timing of gardening work has a real impact on getting the desired results. One of the challenges of gardening in southeast Louisiana (or anywhere) is learning when activities like planting, ...

Pruning throughout the year is a crucial gardening job as it can help promote new growth and even a second flowering. The aim is to remove dead, diseased, and damaged branches and stems, which will ...

As we enter autumn, the transition from summer to winter, gardeners should plan on cutting back their spent perennials. This column focuses on seasonal pruning of herbaceous shrubs, with a review of ...

George Blue Spruce Jr., the first Native dentist, died at 94 at his home in Surprise. Blue Spruce worked for many years at makeshift dental clinics and helped support the first Native dentists group.

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 ...

The Springfield News-Leader in Springfield, Missouri, partners with the Master Gardeners of Green County each week to bring readers a question-and-answer column with some of the expert horticulturists ...