Prune deciduous hollies in winter and evergreen hollies in late winter or early spring. Make clean pruning cuts at the leaf nodes, and don't overharvest branches or berries. Use other natural items, ...

Planting native hollies supports birds and wildlife, while adding year-round beauty to your garden. Native hollies feed birds ...

One task that home gardeners can spend a lot of time on is pruning their shrubs. There are four reasons that you might engage in this task: to affect flower or fruit production; to direct the growth ...

Pruning plants is one task you can take care of now before spring gardening gets busy. Learn which plants benefit, along with ...

End of winter is the best time of year to prune shrubs that flower later in the growing season, i.e. from mid-June and after. The reason is that later-flowering shrubs bloom on “new wood.” This means ...

Most bushes that flower in the summer do so on new growth. That means you can prune anything you like in the spring, since the new growth hasn’t started yet. Butterfly bush and rose of sharon fall ...