Most home gardeners prize azaleas for their wide range of colors and low maintenance. By learning to prune these shrubs properly, you will be rewarded with healthy plants that bring spring color to ...

LET’S REVIEW A perfect and a little-known method which is totally appropriate now in the month of October. I have numerous times explained, and rightly so, how pruning at the wrong time of year can ...

After a summer of growth, you may be ready to bring out those loppers and that new handheld tiny chainsaw pruner this fall and give your shrubs a haircut. But if you want healthy shrubs and some ...

If they get too stressed or dry, they won't set as many buds. Encore, or repeat-blooming, azaleas are beginning to produce new blooms now and should continue through fall. No more pruning should be ...

If you look forward to sweetly scented gardenia blooms in the spring, put those pruners away in the fall. Gardenias ( Gardenia jasminoides) bloom on old wood, and buds are developing during fall.

Encore azaleas bloom in spring, summer, and fall, but even these specific types benefit most from a light pruning right after ...

It has been a beautiful spring. The regular rainfall has helped everything green-up and grow. There are so many things to do in the garden right now. We can begin to renovate our gardens from ...

What to Prune in June (and What to Leave Alone) originally appeared on Dengarden. Pruning is a common gardening practice where cutting away certain parts of a plant, such as its branches, buds or ...

The best time to prune most shrubs is in the winter when the plants are dormant, so you can better see their shape. Which means there are many that you should avoid pruning in the spring—with a few ...