If you're trying to figure out what greenery to prune in spring, grab the shears from your toolkit and take some notes from our gardening experts. Beyond the basics — hydration, nutrition, and ...

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 ...

The next few weeks are some of the year’s best for pruning landscape plants – mainly woody-stemmed ones that already have bloomed for the year, as well as most needled evergreens. Spring-blooming ...

Dear Garden Coach: Can I prune my perennials, like salvias and penstemons? What about other semi-woody shrubs like California native sages and a shrub called cream bush. We cut off the brown flowers ...

Most bushes that flower in the summer do so on new growth. That means you can prune anything you like in the spring, since the new growth hasn’t started yet. Butterfly bush and rose of sharon fall ...

Prune shrubs based on bloom time, cold tolerance, and variety—check what's best for each type. Cut back new wood hydrangeas in fall, but wait until after blooming to prune old wood ones. Remove dead ...