Pruning plants is one task you can take care of now before spring gardening gets busy. Learn which plants benefit, along with ...

Most bushes that flower in the summer do so on new growth. That means you can prune anything you like in the spring, since the new growth hasn’t started yet. Butterfly bush and rose of sharon fall ...

Key Points Trees that bloom out of season in mid-winter are usually nothing to worry about.As a result of scattered buds ...

SYRACUSE, N.Y. — Some flowers are beginning to bloom and trees budding, thanks to the periods of warm weather in Central New York late winter to early spring. What specific flowers will be blooming in ...

Key Points Complete winter pruning while plants are dormant, several weeks before bud break.Removing dead, damaged, diseased, or dangerous branches may be all you need to prepare for spring.Winter ...

I was out in the garden pruning last Saturday and took the opportunity to save some magnolia branches with flower buds to bring inside. It’s a tree that I have not tried forcing branches from before, ...

Some early signs of spring such as the sight of robins returning to the yard or the sound of frogs chirping in the woods are obvious and welcome. Other signs like the swelling tree buds are more ...

It will soon be spring. How do I know? The Japanese Magnolias are in bloom. Nothing signals the arrival of spring better than flowering trees. There are many spring flowering trees that will soon be ...

In a few weeks, the first flowers will appear on trees and shrubs, and spring will be here for sure. Can’t wait that long? Try forcing branches into bloom to bring some early cheer indoors. “It’s an ...

Each spring, as the garden shakes off its winter sleep, buds erupt into bloom in a celebration of the new season. Among those earliest to appear — in concert with and sometimes ahead of the hellebores ...

Doing one task to Japanese maples in winter can promote healthy growth and stimulate dormant buds for a 'more vigorous start in the spring' ...