After a freeze, patience pays. Learn when to prune, how to do the scratch test, and why mulching helps. Skip Richter, hosts ...

Pruning is my favorite gardening task by far, and the winter dormant season is a great time to prune trees and shrubs. You ...

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Prepare for spring by repairing winter damage, incorporating cover crops and controlling early-emerging pests.

Winter is the prime season for planting and pruning fruit trees, and a little thoughtful work now pays off in healthier trees and better fruit later. When pruning mature trees, […] ...

THE WONDERFUL WARM weather, although a great treat for us, is not necessarily a good thing for your plants. Now would normally be the time to prune your trees and bushes. But all pruning is ...

Next spring I will be joining a rose tour in France, so I need to brush up on my French. I gathered up my French books and started by reviewing the chapter on how to ask questions, because if you want ...

Q: When should I prune my rose bushes? They never really go completely dormant, in that they keep their leaves and occasionally bloom throughout the winter. A: Although roses sometimes don’t go ...

Is this a good time to do pruning when there isn’t much other landscape work to be done? Professional landscapers use this time to do a lot of pruning. Unfortunately they often prune plants that ...

Butterfly Bush is one of those shrubs that gets the best of a lot of us. We never can truly anticipate just how huge they can get over the course of a season! So in this video I clearly demonstrate ...

Master Gardener pruning an apricot tree in summer, Anne Schellman. During my time as the Horticulture Advisor for UC Cooperative Extension (UCCE) in Stanislaus County (1978-2011), I frequently ...