Many shrubs benefit from pruning each year. We prune them to remove stray branches and suckers, keep the plants to a manageable size, and maintain an attractive shape. For some shrubs, pruning also ...

Prune these shrubs in spring for more flowers this summer.

The next few weeks are some of the year’s best for pruning landscape plants – mainly woody-stemmed ones that already have bloomed for the year, as well as most needled evergreens. Spring-blooming ...

If you’ve ever wrestled with an overgrown fruit tree, you know the struggle: branches reaching for the sky, fruit hiding in a tangled mess and those pesky suckers popping up everywhere. But don’t ...

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One of the most common questions we receive in Extension is: When is the best time to prune my fruit trees? The general rule ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... January is a highly beneficial time to prune trees and shrubs because this is the dormant period for many plants in coastal California. This column provides ...

There’s plenty to do in the garden in early autumn: planting bulbs, dividing perennials, preparing vegetable beds for next season and watering. But there’s one thing you should not do for several more ...