Spirea shrubs are easy-to-grow plants that thrive in a wide range of climates, offering a wonderful variety of sizes, colors, and forms. Known for their hardiness, spirea can enhance any landscape ...

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 ...

May is the time to prune the early spring-flowering shrubs in your garden. Most deciduous spring-flowering shrubs bloom on stems grown the previous year. So, prune immediately after they’ve finished ...

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 ...