When you're out in the yard pruning your trees, you might be tempted to spruce up your evergreens while you're at it, but ...

Severe pruning — a.k.a. “coat racking” — is never good for ficus and other evergreen trees, but pruning during high heat is even worse. Evergreen trees like the ficus that were heavily pruned outside ...

You can prune evergreens year-round, but the winter offers distinct advantages. In winter, visibility is improved and shaping is easier. Winter evergreen care also includes mulching, watering, and ...

Without trees, the world as we know it would not exist. This is a lesson we all were taught in elementary school. I remember ...

End of winter is the best time of year to prune shrubs that flower later in the growing season, i.e. from mid-June and after. The reason is that later-flowering shrubs bloom on “new wood.” This means ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Credit: Getty Images By the time fall arrives lots of plants in your yard have probably taken on ...

Actually, there aren’t any shrubs that really require trimming. They get by without it in the wild, after all. As Alan Titchmarsh notes in “How to Garden: Flowering Shrubs,” “Many gardeners struggle ...

A GREAT WAY to enhance your yard and entrance-way is to incorporate evergreen displays around your house and/or business. And since November is the perfect time to prune your evergreens, let us ...

Winter pruning takes advantage of the plant’s dormancy. With sap flow slowed and leaves gone, structural flaws are easy to ...

NOVEMBER IS HERE! Winter is around the corner! Last week, we discussed sowing your grass seed, as well as the virtues of planting now, today, tomorrow or the next few weeks, specifically because of ...