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 ...

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

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.

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 ...

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 ...

Why settle for a shrub that blooms for just a few weeks in spring when you can get one that blooms both spring and fall — and maybe a bit in between? That’s been the aim of plant breeders in the last ...

Pruning is a constant part of keeping our landscape in check, regardless of season. It seems as if everybody has a pruning question, generally when the weather changes or changes of the season. Master ...