Spirea, or spiraea, are popular perennial shrubs with pretty blooms in spring and summer. They're generally low-maintenance, but now and again, these plants benefit from a prune. Spirea tend to get ...

For many plants, pruning in late winter can ruin your flower display. But for these summer bloomers, it'll have the opposite ...

If you have an overgrown forsythia or spiraea shrub and have been meaning to do something about it, now is the time to take action! Deciduous shrubs that are straggly, overgrown or just plain ugly can ...

The next few weeks are some of the year’s best for pruning landscape plants – mainly woody-stemmed ones that already have bloomed for the year, as well as most needled evergreens. Spring-blooming ...

Love it or loathe it, pruning is usually a prerequisite for plants to ensure they remain neat, healthy, and put on the best display year after year. If you sit firmly on the loath-it side, or just ...

Midwinter is a good time to prune deciduous shrubs because it’s easy to see the structure and judge which branches to remove.

Columnist Robin Trott talks about why winter pruning works on certain trees and shrubs and why it doesn't on some flowers.

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 ...

Sometimes you just have to … wait … for … it. There have been years when my row of old-fashioned bridal wreath spireas planted on the hill have bloomed ...

Pruning is something many homeowners believe they need to do to shrubs and trees in the fall. However, most pruning should really be done in the early spring and summer. For fall, focus on taking off ...

Shoe button spirea is another favorite shrub in my yard. Right now it is still in its last stages of a simply gorgeous bloom cycle. Other names it may be called are bridal wreath spirea or popcorn ...