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 ...

My red- and yellow-twig dogwoods have gotten bigger than I was expecting and now have very little color in their stems. These are supposed to be good plants for winter color, but now they look drab — ...

Question: We have some red twig dogwood shrubbery. It is growing like crazy and we would like to know the proper ways to trim it - when to trim, suggestions on how, or where, to be cutting the ...

A cheery glimpse of color on a gray and wintry day: That’s why we plant shrubs with bright bark. Colorful bark is a main feature of red-osier dogwood (Cornus sericea subsp. sericea), Siberian dogwood ...

Home gardeners can prune away damaged plant stems and diseased branches at any time of year, but giving certain plants a significant trim in summer isn’t always the best choice. Although some plants ...

October is not the best time to prune lots of trees, but there is one job you can quickly do this month that will benefit many popular backyard trees. That is to remove suckers before they get too ...

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 ...