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Pruning is a necessary but often tedious task for gardeners. Getting the timing right is essential for many plants, and viburnums are a great example. With over 150 species, viburnums (Viburnum spp.) ...

I have some very large, overgrown, fragrant viburnums growing along a path to my house and need to drastically reduce them in size. Can this be done successfully and if so, what is the best approach?

The days are getting longer and it’s starting to feel more believable that spring is around the corner. While warmer weather will add a lot of different gardening tasks to the ‘to-do list,’ right now, ...

Someone recently told me that a woody shrub should never be pruned of old wood because it could die. Is this true? I have a viburnum in need of pruning. That's a new one to me! This is not true, but I ...

I prune plants that are overgrown very aggressively. Most gardeners hesitate to prune aggressively enough to get good results. Overgrown plants have little value in your garden, so don’t be afraid to ...

Pruning is essential for almost all types of plants that live longer than one season from houseplants to landscape shrubs to trees. As with most activities in our lives, timing is everything. Pruning ...

Spring is right around the corner. But when the topic turns to plants with fragrant springtime blossoms, one of our most common landscapes subjects is rarely mentioned. That plant – sweet viburnum, ...