Clearing up some misconceptions and providing clear guidance for several common landscape shrubs.

Now is the time to prepare your plants for their winter rest. For some plants, this includes pruning to promote health, shape them, and prevent unwanted pests and diseases from taking over during the ...

Q • I wasn’t able to prune my boxwoods, yews and burning bushes this summer, and they’ve gotten too big. Is it too late to prune them now? Write to the Missouri Botanical Garden's Center for Home ...

A selection of plants to never prune in February, including spring-flowering trees and shrubs that should be pruned after ...

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 ...

I am planning to do some much-needed pruning in my garden. There are some overgrown yews near my deck that I would like to aggressively prune to reduce their size. Is it OK to do this now? I generally ...

Most woody plants are dormant through winter, making late winter and early spring the most important pruning window of the ...

We've all seen those scraggly, lopsided, or overgrown evergreens looking like a hot mess in the landscape. Once an evergreen reaches that point, it can be a real challenge to correct the problem. But ...

Due to the extra warm winter we've had this year, it’s been a good spring for forsythia. There are loads of yellow flowers on forsythia shrubs all around our area. You may have noticed some bushes ...

Some homeowners may be trimming shrubs this time of year – taming those wild growths back to a manageable and more aesthetically pleasing level. If you have yew shrubs around the home, take great care ...

Spring is a good time to prune most of the trees, shrubs, and evergreens in the yard. For most people, that means getting out the power shears (or chainsaw) and “whacking back the bushes” into balls ...