Missing regular maintenance can leave lilacs sparse and uneven, but one pruning strategy offers a way to restore shape and ...

Growing blueberry bushes in your garden requires patience and careful pruning to produce the best harvest. However, it’s worth the effort for these delicious fruits—and who doesn’t love a homemade ...

If you have the climate to grow orange trees or other compact citrus varieties in your yard, you can enjoy an abundance of glossy green foliage, fragrant blossoms, and juicy, fresh fruit. Evergreen ...

A thinning cut removes the branch at its junction with the trunk or limb. This type of cut is demonstrated on a tree in early spring at the University of Maine Agriculture and Forest Experiment ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The process for pruning blueberry bushes is different from many other plants. Trimming doesn't simply maintain their shape or ...

Pruning is my favorite gardening task by far. I prune plants that have gotten overgrown very aggressively, and I suspect that will be the best approach for you, too. Most gardeners are hesitant to ...

These doublefile viburnum shrubs seen May 5 demonstrate the effects of fall pruning. The plant without flowers was pruned the previous fall, while the plant with flowers was not pruned. (photos by ...

If your fruit trees aren’t yielding enough, pruning could be the game-changer. Trimming at the right time and in the right ...

If you have a fruit tree that’s tall enough to require more than a step ladder to pick its fruit, you may want to consider ...

If you’ve ever wrestled with an overgrown fruit tree, you know the struggle: branches reaching for the sky, fruit hiding in a tangled mess and those pesky suckers popping up everywhere. But don’t ...