Correct pruning of raspberry bushes is essential. Pruning produces higher yields, helps control diseases and facilitates harvesting and other maintenance chores.

Pruning is essential to many rose species' health - but pruning with the right technique, at the right time, is even more essential. Here's what to know.

Harvesting fresh raspberries from your home garden is a fulfilling experience, and with some thoughtful pruning, you can maximize your harvest. By removing old and diseased canes and thinning out new ...

As the warm summer breeze fades and is replaced by the increasingly cooler fall temperatures, you may be thinking about what ...

Many gardeners say you should wait until the end of winter to prune your rose bushes, but a light cut in the fall can help ...

Hey gardeners! Valentine’s day is close at hand…and so is spring! The weather has moderated a bit and become a little more spring-like and who knows, maybe our final round of cold weather has passed.

One of the great things about junipers—along with the fact they’re usually ignored by deer—is how self-sufficient they are. Junipers practically set the gold standard for “plant ‘em and forget ‘em” ...

Proper pruning technique will keep your shrubs healthier, encourage blooms and manage shape and size. Early spring is a great time to get started. Broken, damaged, diseased or branches that rub ...

The first week of February is all about forsythia and pruning. Forsythia is the bright yellow shrub ready to burst into blooms and you can prune it now to force the flowers into an early show indoors.

Most bushes that flower in the summer do so on new growth. That means you can prune anything you like in the spring, since the new growth hasn’t started yet. Butterfly bush and rose of sharon fall ...

Our sweet olive has been in the ground about four years and is about 6 feet tall. We’ve heard these trees can grow to be about 12 to 14 feet tall. I’d like to prune off some of the lower limbs to ...