Coppicing may seem, on paper, a somewhat brutal pruning technique as trees or shrubs are cut back to the ground. However, it ...

With those strengths, it's often easy to think of bushes and shrubs as self-maintaining. But they need regular trimming to ...

The cool days of late March and early April offer a great chance to finish pruning your trees and shrubs. When pruning large ...

In order to keep its blooms healthy and beautiful, Johnsen recommends pruning shrubby cinquefoil ( Potentilla fruticosa) in ...

Pruning is done throughout the year at different times, depending on the shrub or plant at hand - here's what to do and what ...

Next, let’s discuss panicle-type hydrangea pruning. This type performs like what I call a “normal shrub,” with upper branches surviving through winter, instead of dying back like the ...

Cut close to buds, but not into them, and always above. Early pruning helps establish a shapely shrub with vigorous, balanced growth. Most evergreen shrubs do not need thinning or formative pruning.

Other tender shrubs that should be pruned in spring include cistus and rosemary. Flowering shrubs that bloomed in the summer, including fuchsia and buddleia, should be cut back hard in spring to ...

Often growing with little care in the right spot, clematis vines will bloom best when trimmed correctly at least once a year.

April sees the garden come alive with flowers and new foliage but it is also the time to start pruning your plants and shrubs ...

Pruning soft fruits at the right time is essential to keeping plants productive. Follow our guide to get the most out of your fruit bushes and vines. Grapevines are exuberant climbers, so if you ...

"It’s confusing if searching online, because we find complicated recommendations for hydrangea types that aren’t well adapted for Northern gardening," Don Kinzler writes.