It’s a good idea to rejuvenation, prune your overgrown yew shrubs because they are expensive to replace and they grow very slowly. It’s a good idea to have some evergreen in front of your house for winter interest and a beautiful neutral backdrop for other plants. So we are going to keep this new homeowners existing shrubs, but we are going to prune them back slowly over three years. Yews have latent buds on them, and that means that when sunlight hits the brown stems on the center of the plant

Try not to feel powerless about the overgrown shrubs you may have. Just prune them way back! The ideal time to prune is late winter/early spring but it doesn’t mean you can’t prune at other times and you may be too busy to do it then or have other reasons to need to do it at other times. It’s very difficult to kill a shrub by pruning! However, since there is so little growth inside the big yew, I would do it in stages: take off the top half and wait a few weeks for new growth to emerge. When it

We do not want to prune any perennials that includes trees and shrubs, after the beginning of August in Chicago. That is about 10 weeks before our average first frost date. We don’t want to prune because that’s gonna reverse the energy cycle of the plants right now. Once the sun angle gets lower in the sky and August, and the average daily temperature start to get lower and the days also get shorter, the plant starts photosynthesizing food and pulling it down into the root system to store for th

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