Pruning is an essential garden chore for healthy trees, and you may assume that fruit and shade trees have the same pruning requirements, but they don't.

If you're hoping for a vibrant garden with lots of blooms this spring, you can prune these 10 plants as early as February.

When you're out in the yard pruning your trees, you might be tempted to spruce up your evergreens while you're at it, but ...

Orcharding requires effort, but the resulting yields of fresh fruit make it all worthwhile. One of the most important aspects of growing fruit trees is pruning. This applies to large commercial and ...

Mid to late winter is generally the best time to prune trees, according to our Garden Editor and in-house Master Gardener, Tiffany Selvey. "Most trees benefit from pruning while they're dormant ...

Winter is the perfect time to prune oak trees. Oak trees are special for many reasons: they’re Iowa’s state tree, they’re important to our ecosystem and — they shouldn’t be pruned during the spring ...

Sally and George Peterson are DIY gardeners who have transformed a rough hillside with a lake view into a tree-laden landscape with organic vegetables and herbs growing in raised planter beds and a ...

Pruning is an essential task that every gardener will perform regularly, but when it comes to proper pruning, there are ...

If you need motivation to go out in the January cold to do some garden work, picture a tree covered in showy white flowers in spring and orange-red fruit in fall. Better yet, picture yourself next ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. If you've just brought a Christmas tree home only to realize it's too tall to fit in your house, you're not the first one to make ...