Prune these in winter: Birch trees, willows, maples, fruit trees, some hydrangeas, shrub hibiscus, twig dogwoods, shade trees and ornamental grasses. Trees that ooze sap during the spring are best ...

YOU might think there is very little to do in a ­winter garden, be­sides sweeping up soggy leaves and mulching your beds. But ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. No plant announces spring quite like forsythia. Every spring, it bursts with brilliant yellow flowers that declare, without ...

Rose of Sharon (Hibiscus syriacus) is a stalwart in the garden. These long lived flowering shrubs may not be the showiest plants, but they are incredibly easy to grow and very robust. They are so ...

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 ...

We had our first listener question at Homegrown NH, from Vera in Concord: My oak leaf hydrangeas have grown large and are overtaking their beds. Do I wait until spring or after they bloom next summer ...

My landscaper prunes my shrubs every year about this time. I don’t like the way he prunes. My spring blooming shrubs have very few flowers. My neighbors have the same shrubs with lots of bloom. Also, ...