December can be a nerve-wracking time for many gardeners. The weather gets colder every week, snow begins to accumulate on garden beds, and the glory days of spring and summer seem like a lifetime ago ...

A five-bedroom house has been ridiculed online after becoming overrun by huge hedges and rows of trees. The detached stone-built home, located at the foot of the 'attractive' Brooklands Road in ...

SEATTLE — Gardening expert Ciscoe Morris said November is a time when gardens typically die back and get somewhat ugly, but he recommends four plants that are late-autumn miracle workers to brighten ...

Many gardeners' fall to-do lists get packed with tasks like harvesting, pruning, mulching, and winterizing perennials. There's often enough pruning in particular that it can be a relief that some ...

You may be tempted to prune back your garden at the first sign of fall, but when it comes to certain plants, you might want to put away the shears. If you want a tidy winter landscape that's ready for ...

When I moved to Idaho a number of years ago, I would occasionally hear about syringa in reference to a plant. I thought, “Wow, all these people know the botanical name for lilac.” Of course, they ...

Q: Did I make a big mistake? I have several large hedge-like juniper shrubs that line my property out front. I wanted to get them more back in control, so to speak, and arranged to have them pruned ...

Most home gardeners prize azaleas for their wide range of colors and low maintenance. By learning to prune these shrubs properly, you will be rewarded with healthy plants that bring spring color to ...

Make plans now to prune spring-flowering shrubs, such as forsythia, lilac, viburnum and flowering quince, after they finish blooming. “We don’t prune these shrubs in winter because we’d be cutting off ...

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