As lovely as they are in the garden, roses are high-maintenance plants that require an investment of time and effort. If your goal is an easy care garden you may want to remove these shrubs. You may ...

We recently purchased a home with a lot of overgrown shrubs. They cover our front windows and grow over the walks and driveway. They are also very crowded. We are not sure how much we can prune them.

Recently, I wrote about selective pruning, an important maintenance practice used to remove broken, damaged and diseased branches from trees and shrubs. Selective pruning is used to improve their ...

Changing your landscape can be intimidating,especially when you consider the deep rootsystems of plants, shrubs, and small trees.Start by making a planand setting a realistic goal.Remove the branches ...

I am new to the Midwest, and I wonder if I should be concerned with snow piling up on my trees and shrubs. I do not give much thought to the trees and shrubs in my garden during most snowstorms, ...

The first step in pruning a shrub or tree is to remove branches that are dead. “Any plant will accumulate a certain amount of deadwood over time, due to harsh weather, disease and competition,” said ...

One task that home gardeners can spend a lot of time on is pruning their shrubs. There are four reasons that you might engage in this task: to affect flower or fruit production; to direct the growth ...