Cutting shrubs too late causes winter damage and fewer blooms. Discover the ideal pruning deadline for your shrubs and how to ...
Shrubs offer so much to winter gardens. Take mahonia, whose long racemes of bright yellow, pollinator-friendly flowers start ...
Evergreen and deciduous shrubs and trees cover quite a broad range of plants you shouldn’t prune this autumn, but you’ll want to take extra care to avoid trimming trees that produce sap, like acers ...
Cutting back certain evergreens in the fall can exposure their limbs to winter damage or cut off their buds, preventing a ...
This evergreen magnolia produces fragrant ruby-pink blooms against deep green foliage. Learn how to grow and care for 'Stellar Ruby' Magnolia and enjoy beautiful blooms year after year.
Smart gardeners learn to think small. They do their homework, and they plant varieties that don’t grow any larger than the ...
Late autumn to winter is the time to plant bare-root hedges, so gardening editor Sharon Amos shares everything to know about ...
However, the new neighbors did plant a privacy hedge along the redwood fence between us. Unfortunately, this hedge was ...
RHS chief horticulturist Guy Barter shares the plants that benefit from a late-autumn tidy — and which ones to leave until ...
Pruning is often described as an art and a science, and most plants benefit from some pruning. California natives are no exception. But where to get started? Let’s begin by ...