Some plants are already budding for spring, and don't need pruning. But these shrubs benefit from a light pruning in autumn.

A: Yes, you can, but if you want all of your flowers next year — don’t do it! Lilacs are a spring blooming shrub. Most spring blooming flowers form their flower buds from August to October. So, ...

Deciduous shrubs — those that lose their leaves each winter — are always sending up new stems at or near ground level. This makes them forgiving plants to prune. New growth, wherever needed, can ...

As temperatures cool down, the garden seems to come alive again, especially with the recent rains. Dahlias, zinnias, and ...

If I gathered up all the billions of garden questions people have asked me over the years, via email, at the annual neighborhood barbeque, or even as I’m lying on the operating room table waiting for ...

Gardening would be a lot simpler if there were some magical day everything in the garden should be pruned and one standardized way to do it. There isn’t. Nature is gloriously diverse and it takes time ...

Pruning is an important job that you need to complete during October, according to a gardening expert who shared the three ...

One popular question among home gardeners is when and how do you prune your flowering shrubs? Although it can seem tempting to prune in late fall and early spring, the type of shrub you have ...

Trim them when you repot them. After you pull the plant out of its old pot, examine the plant and its roots. Trim off dead roots, bulbs, stems, and canes. A healthy, living orchid root is white, ...

In this stressful spring, we’ve been cheered by the bright blooms of flowering shrubs and ornamental trees such as forsythia, quince, viburnum, lilac, cherry, crabapple and redbud. If these plants ...

I read that spring flowering shrubs should be pruned soon after they are through blooming. Why can’t I wait until fall to prune after they have made their growth for the year? Spring flowering shrubs ...

Dear Dan, I’m growing auto-flowers due to limited time in the space I’m in. Are there any training methods that can be used to increase the quality of the yield? Or would you recommend letting her ...