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Gardeners planning ahead for spring color should know that timing matters for one standout shrub. A pruning misstep can quietly limit next year's display.

Question. Nutsedge is growing in my St. Augustine lawn. Do I control it now or wait until spring? What do I use? Answer. Waste no time controlling this invasive weed that many think is a grass. It ...

One task that home gardeners can spend a lot of time on is pruning their shrubs. There are four reasons that you might engage in this task: to affect flower or fruit production; to direct the growth ...

Someone recently told me that a woody shrub should never be pruned of old wood because it could die. Is this true? I have a viburnum in need of pruning. That's a new one to me! This is not true, but I ...

According to an old saying, if you’ve properly pruned your shrubs, they shouldn’t look pruned. That’s sage advice — unless, of course, you’re pruning shrubs to look like Donald Duck at Disney World.

End of winter is the best time of year to prune shrubs that flower later in the growing season, i.e. from mid-June and after. The reason is that later-flowering shrubs bloom on “new wood.” This means ...