Gardeners planning ahead for spring color should know that timing matters for one standout shrub. A pruning misstep can ...

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According to HGTV, red-twig and yellow-twig dogwoods are best left uncut until their dazzling spring flowers have already ...

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 ...

There's a difference between pruning and trimming trees, shrubs, and perennial plants. Learn when to use each method to promote growth and good health.

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 ...

Early spring is a great time to get the gardening season underway. March is the ideal time to prune trees and bushes. The branches are still bare, revealing the structure of the plant and making any ...

The days are getting longer and it’s starting to feel more believable that spring is around the corner. While warmer weather will add a lot of different gardening tasks to the ‘to-do list,’ right now, ...

Winter pruning during plant dormancy has a substantial impact on spring growth and summer blooms. Late winter pruning before bud break stimulates a burst of growth in spring because new tissue forms ...

*Refers to the latest 2 years of stltoday.com stories. Cancel anytime. American cranberrybush. Photo courtesy Missouri Botanical Garden. Q • I have a cranberry viburnum bush that is about 4 years old ...

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