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 ...

With their beauty, sweet fragrance, and long lifespan, peonies are a favorite garden staple during the summer. But, to preserve their health and ensure gorgeous blooms next spring, it's important to ...

Pruning is an important task to help ensure plant health and keep the perennial garden thriving. In my work as a professional gardener, I try to observe the recommended guidelines for pruning shrubs ...

Most people think of pruning as a late winter or early spring chore, but cutting back some of your perennials in fall can have major benefits for the plant—and your garden. And as it turns out, you ...

There’s an old saying in pruning: “Prune until it hurts, and then prune some more.” The advice helps overcome our fear of cutting away too many branches. Other pruning adages are less useful. “When in ...

Welcome to fall, where most of your gardening to-do list involves chopping back the flowers, shrubs, trees and other growing things in your yard. Pruning is such a big part of fall cleanup that it may ...

November marks the end of the fall and is a transitional period into winter. It is a month when many gardens get the first frosts, which kill back summer-flowering plants, and deciduous trees and ...

Pruning your peonies isn't difficult. “Simply prune off the dead leaves and cut back the stems so they're only a few inches ...