Learn the best techniques for pruning hydrangeas and overgrown lilacs to encourage healthy growth and beautiful blooms. This ...

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Pruning is at the top of the to-do list in your July garden. Prune out water sprouts — vigorous shoots on the inside of a tree and on the trunk — and suckers, vigorous shoots growing from the base of ...

Purdue Landscape Report: Espalier is a pruning and training technique that shapes a tree or shrub to grow in a flat, usually two-dimensional form, often against a wall, fence, or trellis. Rather than ...

One of the most brilliantly flowering woody plants at this time of year is presently in full bloom in my front yard. Known as chaste tree (Vitex agnus-castus), its slender, conical, bee-loving ...