Have you walked through your yard lately and wondered how those shrubs got so big? Most deciduous landscape shrubs benefit from annual pruning. It keeps them in shape, gets rid of dead and diseased ...

Deciduous shrubs — those that lose their leaves each winter — are always sending up new stems at or near ground level. This makes them forgiving plants to prune. New growth, wherever needed, can ...

Over the next several weeks, reinvigorate and shape deciduous shrubs (the ones that lose their leaves every fall) while they are dormant, using several pruning techniques. Pruning takes practice, but ...

Some cotoneasters, especially evergreens, are fast-growing shrubs and soon make good-sized plants that create impact when in ...

Now that we are officially in the winter season, it’s time for pruning woody plants. Most online and printed sources of pruning advice focus on newly planted trees and shrubs, rather than mature ...

RHS chief horticulturist Guy Barter shares the plants that benefit from a late-autumn tidy — and which ones to leave until ...

If you have held off pruning or thinning early flowering deciduous shrubs, do it as soon as flowering is over. Some of these shrubs are early flowering species of viburnum, shrubby forms of ...

Do you know the easiest way to stop a dog from digging in your garden? Take away his shovel. Digging dogs aren’t the only cause of plant problems; winter can be tough on plants, too. And of course, ...

Most leaf drop of deciduous trees and shrubs occurs by mid-December. Some plants will start dropping leaves as early as the second week of November while others drop leaves later. But of course, much ...