Prune shrubs in fall only after frost when they’ve gone dormant. Avoid heavy cuts early since fall pruning triggers new growth. Thin crowded or open shrubs to improve airflow and prevent winter damage ...

Lush growth on lawns, shrubs and trees testifies ample rainfall. If your walkways have crowded with new branches that swish as you pass by, or plants — like the rosemary in my garden — that usually ...

Spring is the perfect time to tidy up your garden after winter and get it ready for a new season. One of the key steps is pruning plants. Many spring-flowering shrubs can become messy and lose their ...

WINTER on the West Coast is one of the best times of the year to do several seasonally relevant tasks in the garden including mulching, transplanting, liming the soil and, above all, pruning many ...

End of winter is the best time of year to prune shrubs that flower later in the growing season, i.e. from mid-June and after. The reason is that later-flowering shrubs bloom on “new wood.” This means ...

Pruning is the gardener’s art of cutting back plants to improve their health, shape and productivity. It involves selectively removing plant parts, such as branches, buds or roots, to eliminate ...