Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. white spirea flowers Spirea, or spiraea, are popular perennial shrubs with pretty blooms in spring and summer. They're generally ...

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 ...

According to an old saying, if you’ve properly pruned your shrubs, they shouldn’t look pruned. That’s sage advice — unless, of course, you’re pruning shrubs to look like Donald Duck at Disney World.

Timing the pruning of your plants right is vital to their health. These are the flowering vines and lush bushes you should be ...

End of winter is the best time of year to prune shrubs that flower later in the growing season, i.e. from mid-June and after. The reason is that later-flowering shrubs bloom on “new wood.” This means ...

As summer approaches, it’s time to finish pruning trees and shrubs that flowered in spring. “If you wait too long after they bloom, you’ll diminish next year’s flower display,” said Sharon Yiesla, ...

Tired of worrying you'll snip off next year's blooms? These four no-prune shrubs promise clouds of flowers in UK gardens, with barely a secateur in sight. Pruning can feel like the scariest part of ...