Boxwoods are hardy evergreen shrubs that are valuable for forming borders for driveways and walkways for formal and contemporary homes. Learn when to trim boxwoods and how best to do it for a neat ...

Most broadleaf shrubs (such as azaleas, camellias, ligustrum, abelia, and cleyera) respond well to renewal pruning. Boxwoods, however, recover slowly and may even die when severely pruned unless ...

Do yourself and your shrubs some good by getting outside to prune them in midwinter. “This time of year, when shrubs and small trees are dormant, is an easy time to prune them,” said Sharon ...

To preserve the bright bark color of shrubs such as red-osier dogwood, prune out the oldest stems to leave the younger, more vivid ones. By Beth Botts UPDATED: February 19, 2023 at 11:00 AM CST ...

One is a three-year “renewal pruning” in which one-third of the shrub’s branches are removed to the ground each year. By year four, replacement growth gives you an all-new shrub.

Pruning and trimming are both ways to grow healthier, more beautiful plants. But although these two strategies are similar—cutting away leaves, branches, or other plant parts—they should be ...

Then boxwood blight, a fungal disease that originated in Europe, made its way to the United States in 2011. Bennett Saunders, the general manager of Saunders Genetics, which specializes in boxwood ...

The first week of February is all about forsythia and pruning. Forsythia is the bright yellow shrub ready to burst into blooms and you can prune it now to force the flowers into an early show indoors.