Thought you were all done with gardening chores for the winter? Not so fast. Now is the perfect time to prune your trees and shrubs.

If you are considering adding these lovely trees to your house, congratulations on a smart decision. But while these trees cannot grow too tall, they still require pruning to develop healthily. We ...

Both trees and summer-blooming shrubs ... their structure strong and insects and diseases at bay, pays off big time over the years. By pruning appropriately you’ll extend the lifetime of your ...

Pruning can also be considered preventive maintenance for both insect and disease damage. Many problems may be prevented by pruning correctly during the formative years for a tree or shrub. The late ...

In addition to providing shade and beauty to your yard—not to mention delicious fruit—fig trees also help with soil retention and erosion control. Pruning a fig tree annually is the gardener's ...

Winter tree pruning is an important step in garden maintenance that can significantly affect the health of trees, their development, and yield in the next season. However, not all gardeners know how ...

The best time to prune northern climate fruit trees is after the coldest winter temperatures have passed and before bud swell. Depending on where you are in Minnesota, this generally falls between ...

The Emerald Necklace Conservancy has begun inspecting over 900 trees for pruning throughout the Back Bay Fens and neighboring Charlesgate Park, therefore improving tree structure and health while also ...

Prune a tree to have well-spaced branches and a balanced appearance, while eliminating broken, diseased or dead branches. For larger limbs, start the cut from the underside of the limb to avoid ...