Shrubs never stay the way they look when you first plant them. Many popular landscape shrubs grow a foot or two a year, quickly overtaking everything around them. Before you know it, they're blocking ...

This time of year, there's not much going on in the garden. But now, when plants are dormant, is the best time to prune many woody landscape plants to ensure their health and beauty in the next ...

Whether you’ve inherited a collection of big, old shrubs on a newly purchased property or neglected them into jungledom yourself, most homeowners sooner or later face the issue of what to do about ...

There's a special kind of chaos that happens in your garden when fall fades and winter looms—leaves crunch underfoot, branches sag from the last storm, and suddenly your once-tidy shrubs look like ...

Sometimes a garden shrub grows too large for its site. It may have long branches blocking a walkway or window. It may be shading out other plants or getting wider and taking over a bed. Or, it may ...

Pruning is my favorite gardening task by far, and the winter dormant season is a great time to prune trees and shrubs. You can heavily prune overgrown deciduous woody shrubs up until new growth begins ...