While many shrubs in your garden are entering dormancy, November is actually the best time to prune a number of species to ...

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 ...

Fall isn’t the best time to prune many shrubs because you risk removing the buds that will develop into next year’s blooms. Azaleas, Chinese fringe flower, and forsythia rely on later pruning for ...

Spring is the best time to prune butterfly bushes. Pruning in the late fall or winter leaves them susceptible to frost damage. Wait until the spring to do a hard prune (pruning it back to one foot ...

The time is now to grab the pruners and get your shrubs and bushes back in shape. Pruning a shrub is meant to achieve one of several objectives. First, some of these shrubs look really nice near your ...