Pruning is essential to garden maintenance, and knowing the right approach will ensure that your prized plants remain healthy and look their best. Certain species, including many Mediterranean herbs, ...

Spring is the best time to prune butterfly bushes. Pruning in the late fall or winter leaves them susceptible to frost damage. Wait until the spring to do a hard prune (pruning it back to one foot ...

Butterfly Bush is one of those shrubs that gets the best of a lot of us. We never can truly anticipate just how huge they can ...

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The first winter I got brave with pruning, I “tidied up” a lilac on a sunny January afternoon. Come spring, the shrub was covered in lush, healthy leaves… and not a single flower. I’d cut off every ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... As we enter autumn, the transition from summer to winter, gardeners should plan on cutting back their spent perennials. This column focuses on seasonal ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... January is a highly beneficial time to prune trees and shrubs because this is the dormant period for many plants in coastal California. This column provides ...

I have several overgrown azalea bushes and want to rejuvenate them. Is it too late to cut them back now? I do realize I would lose the spring flowers, but I’m afraid the overgrown condition of the ...

Pruning climbing roses is very different from pruning bush roses. For one thing, we rarely cut them back hard the way we do bush roses. That would defeat the purpose of planting a climbing rose — to ...

Maybe you know your watering, pruning, and fertilizing well enough to get your fruit trees and bushes to produce something edible out of a pot. Maybe the bugs won’t infest, and the deer won’t eat ...

As we enter autumn, the transition from summer to winter, gardeners should plan on cutting back their spent perennials. This column focuses on seasonal pruning of herbaceous shrubs, with a review of ...