Certain weather conditions can make shrubs vulnerable to stress during pruning. Avoid heavy pruning during very dry or hot weather, and aim for cooler weather in early spring or late autumn. Before ...

Early March pruning can be tricky. Learn how to safely prune your shrubs based on weather, plant type, and goals.

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 ...

Pruning your butterfly bushes is one of those necessary, but easily forgotten chores. A fear of doing it incorrectly, plus the busy nature of life, is a formula for an overgrown butterfly bush that ...

A hand picking a blueberry from a bush - Kativ/Getty Images Blueberries (Vaccinium spp.) are some of the most coveted fruit-bearing bushes you can have in a home garden. Not only are these bushes ...

Stormy weather or not, now is the time to get out into the garden and prune blueberry bushes. Blueberries are a common, popular food crop that many North Coast gardeners like to grow. But, one thing ...

March is the ideal time to get pruning in the garden as plants wake up.