Cutting back shrubs keeps precious plants healthy, looking neat, and putting on a fantastic annual display of flowers.

Flowering shrubs that bloom in summer or early fall (i.e. butterfly bush, caryopteris, rose-of-sharon, panicle hydrangeas, ...

Hannah Stephenson looks at what to prune now, and what can wait... It's almost time for plants to start back into life, when gardeners dust off their secateurs to get their prized shrubs and trees ...

February is the ideal time to prune most trees and shrubs but only if they really need pruning — not just because you read it’s the season for cutting things back. Pruning is primarily done to ...

Question: We recently purchased a home with a lot of overgrown shrubs. They cover part of our front windows and grow over the ...

Q: I'm planning to cut back my alpine currant hedge that was damaged in heavy snow from the previous two winters. Can I do the same with my two highbush cranberry shrubs that are overgrown and ...

it’s just about time to get back in the garden and start giving your plants the TLC they need to reach their full potential this spring and summer. The best time to prune evergreen shrubs is ...

But the truth of the matter is, shrubs don’t need to be cut back. In fact, shrubs existed just fine for millennia without the able assistance of well-intentioned gardeners. Cutting back shrubs ...

These plants are going to develop their flower buds on new wood, in the spring of the current flowering season. We call many of these “cut-back shrubs" because when winter is nearly over ...