How to have healthier hedges—and happier neighbors.

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." Hedges create an attractive natural boundary between properties, walkways, and drives—but only if you ...

If your hedges are too tall to trim with a standard hedge trimmer, then you should be using a pole hedge trimmer instead of a ladder. It’s safer, and pole hedge trimmers have a range of features that ...

Two millennia ago, the Roman writer Columella described the vintoria falx, a six-part, specialized pruning tool for grapes. What a stir that tool must have caused among Roman grape growers when it was ...

Fences make good neighbors and so do hedges ... as long as they are done well. Hedges are the workhorses of the suburban garden. They define space. As superstars of the backdrop, they set the mood and ...

Anything on a tree that is dead, diseased or damaged can be cut out any time of the year.