"Many hardy geraniums respond well to a post-flowering trim. Cutting plants back after the first flush encourages fresh ...

Time to break out those shears!

Pruning is my favorite gardening task and I am happy that the pruning season is quickly approaching. It’s a good time to ...

Pruning your shrubs is perhaps the least exciting part of gardening (though it may still beat weeding). But when it's done at the right time and with the proper technique, it can produce great results ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Pruning plants while they are dormant reduces stress and encourages healthy growth. (Getty Images) Along with mowing the lawn at ...

It's pruning time for your spring-flowering plants!

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 ...

Make plans now to prune spring-flowering shrubs, such as forsythia, lilac, viburnum and flowering quince, after they finish blooming. “We don’t prune these shrubs in winter because we’d be cutting off ...

Answer: Lilacs, spirea and other spring blooming shrubs must be pruned soon after they bloom up until about the end of July. Spring blooming shrubs set new flower buds for next spring starting in ...

After our colder winter months, it’s time to start thinking about pruning the shrubs in the yard and remove any cold damage.

These doublefile viburnum shrubs seen May 5 demonstrate the effects of fall pruning. The plant without flowers was pruned the previous fall, while the plant with flowers was not pruned. (photos by ...