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.

Pruning is my favorite gardening task by far, and the winter dormant season is a great time to prune trees and shrubs. You can heavily prune overgrown deciduous woody shrubs up until new growth begins ...

The dormant season is the best time of year to do this work, as healthy plants will respond with lots of new growth.

Watch as a dedicated homeowner tackles an extensive yard maintenance project by trimming overgrown bushes along his property ...

Boxwoods are popular shrubs for landscaping in the Southern garden. They are slow growers, which means you don't need to prune often to keep them to a desirable size. But this also means you have to ...

Spring-blooming shrubs like forsythia should be left alone until flowering is over. (Photo by Neil Bell) By Kym Pokorny, OSU Extension Service CORVALLIS, Ore. – You've got clippers in hand, a shrub in ...

All too often landscape shrubs become overgrown after many years of reflect. As a result they become ugly in form and need major pruning or replacement. This happened with six large privet shrubs at ...

Make plans now to prune spring-flowering shrubs, such as forsythia, lilac, viburnum and flowering quince, after they finish blooming. “We don’t prune these shrubs in winter because we’d be cutting off ...