That urge to grab your pruners the moment temperatures rise is one of the most natural impulses in gardening, and one of the ...
October is not the best time to prune lots of trees, but there is one job you can quickly do this month that will benefit many popular backyard trees. That is to remove suckers before they get too ...
A guide to five flowering trees to prune in early spring, as you sacrifice flowers and growth if they are trimmed any later, ...
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 ...
Which branches — if any — should you be cutting off your young trees? You can't glue the wrong choices back on!
Trees benefit from fall trimming more than spring trimming. Trees experience less stress with fall trimming because they are entering dormancy. Spring tree trimming is better if the goal is to ...
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 ...
A woman prunes a bare fruit tree with shears on a cold winter day with snow on the ground. - Irina Nazarova/Getty Images While the rest of your garden is sleeping peacefully under a blanket of snow or ...
The effects of the changing climate are felt in all aspects of ecology, from the melting of the ice caps to the acidification of the oceans. However, one more recent finding suggests that even trees ...
I recently had the opportunity to take a small group of Colorado State University (CSU) Extension Master Gardeners to Yellow ...