End of winter is the best time of year to prune shrubs that flower later in the growing season, i.e. from mid-June and after. The reason is that later-flowering shrubs bloom on “new wood.” This means ...

Don Kinzler answers questions about the best time to prune a rose bush and cross-pollination. He also gives a reader a recommendation for an evergreen tree that won't grow taller than 25 feet ...

1 Go green: Sunday is St. Patrick’s Day, so wear green as you apply a quarter cup of Epsom salts (magnesium sulfate) to each mature rose bush to boost both vigor and flowering capacity. It is ...

Q. Last year, three rose bushes died suddenly about the same time — all were different ages and healthy until then. I think drainage is the problem because there is a depression on the other side of ...

Learning to prune roses perfectly is a little like learning how to bake bread. It takes practice but over the years, you figure out how to do it just right. And even when it's not perfect, it's still ...

I pruned my Freedom Rose of Sharon bush/tree in early spring this year as I do every year. However, I have no leaves or buds this time; just a few suckers growing up from the bottom. It usually grows ...

My rose has some reddened stems, at the same time other stems are green. Is this just new growth? It looks weird. Rose rosette virus has infected your rose. Besides reddened leaves and stems, disease ...

DEAR JOAN: I was cleaning up the yard and was trying to pull some previously clipped branches from an overgrown antique rose bush that had gotten about 20 feet off the ground, climbing on another bush ...