Knowing how and when to prune forsythia is critical for keeping this shrub healthy and its spring blooms bountiful. It's among the first shrubs to bloom in landscapes as winter begins to fade, its ...

Due to the extra warm winter we've had this year, it’s been a good spring for forsythia. There are loads of yellow flowers on forsythia shrubs all around our area. You may have noticed some bushes ...

The first week of February is all about forsythia and pruning. Forsythia is the bright yellow shrub ready to burst into blooms and you can prune it now to force the flowers into an early show indoors.

This forsythia hedge has very few flowers because the hedge is crowded with invasive trees and the remaining forsythia branches were sheared back in the fall, removing the spring-flowering wood. The ...

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 ...

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 ...

If I gathered up all the billions of garden questions people have asked me over the years, via email, at the annual neighborhood barbeque, or even as I’m lying on the operating room table waiting for ...

If you wait and prune these spring bloomers in the fall or winter, you will cut off all of next year’s flower buds. As we move through the end of May, it becomes imperative that any pruning (think ...

Many shrubs benefit from pruning each year. We prune them to remove stray branches and suckers, keep the plants to a manageable size, and maintain an attractive shape. For some shrubs, pruning also ...

"I brake for butchered plants." Perhaps that's what my bumper sticker should read, because I did almost slam on my brakes recently to try and save a forsythia bush - a whole row of them, in fact - ...

Properly pruning forsythia at the right time is the secret getting lots of gorgeous yellow flowers. Knowing how and when to prune forsythia is critical for keeping this shrub healthy and its spring ...