4. Xeriscaping It's just another word for trees and shrubs that require comparatively little care. Combine gravel with drought-tolerant plants and you've just freed up a few weekend hours to watch TV ...

Pruning is essential for attractive, healthy trees and shrubs and improves the quality of flowers, fruit and foliage. The ...

In addition to providing shade and beauty to your yard—not to mention delicious fruit—fig trees also help with soil retention and erosion control. Pruning a fig tree annually is the gardener's ...

The basic tools are hand pruners, hedge and lopping shears, a pruning saw, a pole pruner, a pole saw to reach high parts of the tree, and a chain saw. Hand pruners can be used for cutting twigs ...

You’ll probably notice a lot of tree pruning taking place on the North Campus over the next several months. UB is contracting with a Clarence company to prune some 844 trees on the Amherst campus ...

Winter is a great time to prune the trees in your garden ... to make a clean cut just outside the branch collar using sharp tools. For more plant advice, contact the Plant Information Service ...

If your pruning shears are dull, this video shows you how to restore their sharpness using the most effective method. Learn how to sharpen your shears like a professional, ensuring they cut with ...

I was up in the White Mountains this weekend, walking out to my car in the AMC’s Highland Center parking lot after a hike, and there between the buildings and the cars was a gorgeous aspen tree ...

Mid- to late-winter provides an excellent opportunity to prune a variety of plants in the landscape. Plants that can be pruned now include most hedges, shrubs and shade trees, and summer-flowering ...

Now is the time for some winter pruning on ornamental shrubs and trees. From December to late ... Make sure your tools are sharp and clean and disinfect them with a spritz of rubbing alcohol ...