Spring is the worst time of year to prune your dogwood tree because you can negatively impact spring blooms. If you want to prune your dogwood trees, any other time of the year is perfect, depending ...

Dogwood trees are a bit picky about water; they prefer consistently moist, but not saturated, soil that drains well. Newly ...

Winter pruning can keep shrubs healthy and vibrant by stimulating fresh growth. There’s never a dull moment in the garden, no matter the season. Today we're tackling an important cold-weather job in ...

My garden has some red-twig dogwoods that are very large and have very little color in their stems. These are supposed to be good plants for winter interest. Should I give up and remove them to plant ...

A: Early fall is generally not the time to prune woodies, the term horticulturists use for trees, shrubs and vines that do not die back. With killing frost still more than a month away, there is time ...

Many holiday floral arrangements include branches with red bark. Colorful bark is a characteristic of certain kinds of shrubs that can brighten winter when they grow in your own yard. “For the best ...

I’d love to grow native grasses or wildflowers, but how can I control this invasive that comes at me from my neighbors? The impenetrable thickets of 6-8 foot Japanese knotweed are bad. So bad that, in ...

Low-maintenance and adaptable dogwood trees can be beautiful home landscape additions, especially when the flowering varieties are in bloom. An added advantage is that these trees are usually pretty ...