Experts share what to prune now to keep your garden healthy, balanced, and blooming through summer.

Many trees, shrubs, and perennials can produce more blooms and stronger growth if you trim them back at certain points during the year. The ideal window depends on the type of plant. Take the mystery ...

As our gardens burst into bloom, a little careful pruning in May can help ensure a season filled with colour, shape and ...

As you’re preparing your garden for winter, it's tempting to get out the pruners and remove any wayward branches from your trees or shrubs. Without the leaves, it's easier to see the shape of the ...

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 ...

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, and the winter dormant season is a great time to prune trees and shrubs. You can heavily prune overgrown deciduous woody shrubs up until new growth begins ...

The perennial question of when to prune depends on when your shrub blooms, and what your goals are - with special attention ...

The beginning of February means it is time to consider the big hack job or to simply get snippy with some of your trees, shrubs and perennials. To prune or not to prune, that is the question. The ...

Hardy and resilient, a lilac can live for many decades, and if it is not regularly pruned, it can become tangled, overgrown ...

Put your pruning shears away this spring when it comes to these eight kinds of trees.

Winter may be the traditional time to prune apple trees and grape vines, but it’s not the right time for all woody plants. There are different reasons why pruning during winter is not recommended. For ...