Although most trees benefit from winter pruning, some benefit from early spring trims in March. Here's what you need to know ...
In many parts of North America, January is when most outdoor plants are dormant. Spring is months away, leaving gardeners feeling like there's nothing they can do outside in their garden. Yet there ...
A thinning cut removes the branch at its junction with the trunk or limb. This type of cut is demonstrated on a tree in early spring at the University of Maine Agriculture and Forest Experiment ...
It is officially time to start thinking about the growing season. From winter-damaged spruce trees to the best time to prune apple trees. We also go "inside the cover" of Northern Gardener Magazine, ...
AND HOW TO DO IT. WITH A HANDSAW AND A CAREFUL CUT, THIS CAN BE PRIME TIME FOR PRUNING. SO I’LL TAKE THIS BACK AT THE ARNOLD ARBORETUM IN BOSTON. HORTICULTURISTS ARE TAKING ADVANTAGE OF A NARROW ...
Older man pruning tall shrubs in snowy yard. - Svetlana-cherruty/Getty Images Even though perennial plants are still at rest during February's waning days of winter, you still have work to do if you ...
There are a number of, dare I say, thorny problems that many of us wrestle with in our gardens, myself included. Ahead of ...