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A guide to the best plants to prune in April, featuring expert trimming tips, along with guidance on what not to prune and ...

Spring gardening season is starting to take off!

Getting the timing right is half the battle when it comes to pruning flowering shrubs. Prune at the wrong time, and you’ll lop off developing flower buds. Or prune too late in the growing season, and ...

Renowned gardener, author and television presenter Alan Titchmarsh has dispensed countless gardening tips over his ...

Determining what time of year to prune your ornamental deciduous shrubs can be tricky and confusing, but we hope to clear up some misconceptions and provide clear guidance for several common landscape ...

Make plans now to prune spring-flowering shrubs, such as forsythia, lilac, viburnum and flowering quince, after they finish blooming. “We don’t prune these shrubs in winter because we’d be cutting off ...

We recently purchased a home that has some very large azalea bushes. We love azaleas, but these are quite large and overgrown ...

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 ...

For all of these plants, pruning can begin if needed after we have assessed how much, if any, winter damage has occurred. That will not be until late April when plants should be growing. If you have ...

The Springfield News-Leader in Springfield, Missouri, partners with the Master Gardeners of Green County each week to bring readers a question-and-answer column with some of the expert horticulturists ...