Pruning plants in the fall doesn’t just keep your garden looking neat. It also wards off disease and pests while giving perennials a head start on healthy growth for the spring. Some plants, like ...

Are you one of the many gardeners who worry about pruning a plant and causing damage? Don’t be. Pruning can be easy if you know a little bit about what you are doing.

Horticulturist at Vern Goers Greenhouse Dan Kosta joins Wendy Snyder (in for Bob Sirott) to talk about what to do with your lawn, plants, and shrubs before the first snow and the proper environment ...

That once-cute shrub is now blocking the windows, swallowing the walkway, and testing your patience. Before you dig it out, ...

An overgrown shrub can become a safety hazard or eyesore and must be removed. Learn how to remove overgrown shrubs without tearing up your yard or damaging structures.

Fall may feel like an obvious time to do some serious trimming and pruning of your landscaping and gardens. As the weather tiptoes towards winter, you may have the urge to cut back plants so ...

Since it produces flowers on new wood—meaning summer blooms emerge from shoots developed that same year—achieving "big, dramatic flower spikes" requires hard pruning "now". Aldi recommends cutting ...

Much beloved by houseplant enthusiasts and green thumbs the world over, spider plants are famously easy to care for and prized for their slender, arching leaves and ability to quickly produce baby ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Pruning plants in the fall doesn’t just keep your garden looking neat. It also wards off disease and pests while giving perennials ...

Often known as the butterfly bush, buddleia should be cut back firmly before spring gets going. It flowers on new wood, meaning the blooms you see in the summer grow on shoots produced that year. If ...