When the first frost hits, your garden's not done yet - it's just time for a little tough love. Learn which plants need a ...

Cutting shrubs too late causes winter damage and fewer blooms. Discover the ideal pruning deadline for your shrubs and how to ...

Pruning plants in the fall doesn’t just keep your garden looking neat. It also wards off disease and pests while giving perennials a head start on healthy growth for the spring. Some plants, like ...

The last thing you want to do when pruning a plant is to remove its buds, which, Hancock notes, are formed nearly a year ...

Fall pruning isn't for every shrub, but it's the key to lush blooms and healthy shaping for some. If you have these shrubs ...

Heat, drought, and pest obstacles aside, landscape plants now have completed most of this season’s growth. The result in some cases is a landscape that’s blown past ideal sizes and is now bordering on ...

Some perennials, though, are best cut back in fall. Hosta, iris and daylilies don’t have rigid stems, and quickly flatten under the weight of snow, often becoming mushy and moldy by spring, making ...

This week’s jarring arrival of searing heat puts us at the doorstep of our traditionally two hottest months of the year — that time of the growing season when plants and lawns can bake at near ...