If you are inclined to prune your pine trees, now is the perfect time to do so. Most people don’t prune mature pine trees, but many prune mugho pines, which are more of a shrub. Pruning these keeps ...

This week’s final article on pruning focuses on evergreen trees. There is a big difference in timing the pruning of pines versus spruces and others. Pruning pines at the wrong time means no more ...

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 ...

Cutting back certain evergreens in the fall can exposure their limbs to winter damage or cut off their buds, preventing a ...

Most of us are probably within arm’s length of a piece of Pinus strobus secondary xylem, more casually called white pine wood. One should not be timid of speaking formally of white pine; it was ...