Knowing how and when to prune forsythia is critical for keeping this shrub healthy and its spring blooms bountiful. It's ...

By taking away these weak parts you can maximize new growth and help your plant grow bigger and stronger. One woman just ...

Pruning is an important job throughout the year, but there are certain plants which should not be pruned in January.

The main technique for reducing the size of an overgrown deciduous shrub is called heading back. Heading cuts are intended to ...

Correct lopsided growth by lightly pruning longer shoots and hard pruning weak stems. Shrubs such as forsythia and buddleja can soon accumulate masses of old, dead wood in the centre if they are ...

With a good pruning schedule you can keep hedges under ... while those that flower on old wood, such as forsythia, deutzia and berberis, should be pruned when the blooms fade.

Cut branches forced into bloom can help add sunshine to those gloomy winter days and it is not hard to coax many into flower. Branches from cherry, plum, forsythia, apple, ...

This is also a good week to prune forsythia and bring the bare branches ... If you want to cut your rubber plant down to size, sometime in April would be a good time as the longer days will ...

you may lose a season of blooms if you saw back a giant rhododendron in February or use hedge trimmers on a sprawling forsythia in January. Maybe you will kill an out-of-control plant by pruning ...