We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. During fall, temperatures begins to cool and the growing season wanes for a wide variety of plants. However, at the same time, autumn is the ...

Patience is key when downsizing an overgrown camellia, and this gradual approach prevents stress while reshaping decades-old ...

Growing blueberry bushes in your garden requires patience and careful pruning to produce the best harvest. However, it’s worth the effort for these delicious fruits—and who doesn’t love a homemade ...

Want to keep your lilac blooming its best? Follow these essential pruning guidelines for a full shrub and tons of flowers.

A thinning cut removes the branch at its junction with the trunk or limb. This type of cut is demonstrated on a tree in early spring at the University of Maine Agriculture and Forest Experiment ...

IDAHO FALLS — One of the most common questions we receive in Extension is: When is the best time to prune my fruit trees? The general rule of thumb is to prune in late winter or early spring, while ...

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 ...

Pruning is my favorite gardening task by far. I prune plants that have gotten overgrown very aggressively, and I suspect that will be the best approach for you, too. Most gardeners are hesitant to ...

YORK, Pa. — Trees have essentially been dormant during the winter months, preparing to come back to life as temperatures warm. Tree experts say if there’s a “best” time to give those trees some TLC ...

If you’ve ever wrestled with an overgrown fruit tree, you know the struggle: branches reaching for the sky, fruit hiding in a tangled mess and those pesky suckers popping up everywhere. But don’t ...