Knowing how to prune a pear tree is essential as December approaches. The colder weather is the perfect time to shape your plant, ensure that it's healthy before the spring growth starts and ...

Redbuds are deciduous trees adored for their pink or white spring flowers and unique heart-shaped leaves. Pruning helps keep redbuds healthy and productive, so knowing when and how to prune a ...

‘The best time to plant bare-root fruit trees like apples is towards the end of winter or the first half of spring, once the ...

But whoever dreamed up the worst pruning practice for any tree — topping ornamental pears to “save them” from their fate — is out of their mind. Let me back up and explain. Ornamental pear ...

I also learned that one of my points about this tree missed the mark with some. Everyone connected with the comments about pruning. But a few overlooked the comments about ornamental pears being ...

For pruning trees, focus on the likes of apple or pear trees or plain maple ... green thumbs should avoid pruning spring-flowering shrubs like forsythia, lilac, and flowering currant.

Cutting back flowering perennials, annuals and bedding plants can help to improve and prolong flowering and the shape of a plant. It’s not just trees and shrubs that need pruning. Flowering ...

Fire blight infects ornamental fruit trees such as this callery pear, a popular landscape tree. Symptoms include cankers on branches ... on the Indiana Arborist Association website or contact the IAA ...