In addition to focusing on trees and shrubs with dead or damaged areas, prioritize pruning overgrown and fast-growing evergreens in your yard. Aim to keep each plant's natural shape intact, unless you ...

Many shrubs benefit from pruning each year. We prune them to remove stray branches and suckers, keep the plants to a manageable size, and maintain an attractive shape. For some shrubs, pruning also ...

The next few weeks are some of the year’s best for pruning landscape plants – mainly woody-stemmed ones that already have bloomed for the year, as well as most needled evergreens. Spring-blooming ...

Late winter is not too early to start pruning evergreens in the South. In fact, winter is an ideal time to prune many evergreen trees and shrubs. Since spring has yet to arrive, you can reshape ...

Dear Neil: When should I prune my Nellie R. Stevens holly? How much can I trim it? The best time to trim and reshape any evergreen shrub is late winter, a few weeks before the burst of spring growth.

New growth or candles on a Scotch pine can be pruned in June. CONTRIBUTED New growth or candles on a Scotch pine can be pruned in June. CONTRIBUTED I sure hope this weekend will provide a bit of ...

If your evergreen shrubs need pruning, now is a good time for it. But don't bring out the hedge clippers. We're talking about strategic pruning that enhances the health of a shrub. Right now, shrubs ...