Techniques

It may seem strange: cutting back your container plants to encourage growth, but that’s exactly what good pruning does. By keeping your container garden well-groomed, you’ll get healthier plants with more beautiful blooms that last longer throughout the season. Learn a few tips to encourage that healthy look.

While beautiful, ivy can cause damage to some landscape plants. Keep your plants healthy by using the following tips for properly removing invading ivy from your trees and shrubs.

Pollarding trees is an intensive pruning method used to encourage abundant annual foliage to grow in a ball-like habit. It’s not for every tree – or gardener. But if you’ve got the will, we’ve got the way. Just follow this step-by-step guide to transforming your young trees into a classic ball shape.

Annual tree care and tree trimming helps keep your growing investments healthy, beautiful and strong. Follow this easy step-by-step guide to pruning a deciduous tree, and keep your landscape well-groomed.

Not sure how to get your garden to lighten up? Prune trees. Pruning opens light to the interior of a tree, eliminates deadwood and helps reduce disease problems. Learn how you can increase light in shade gardens by pruning trees and shrubs, as well as some tree pruning tips.

One of the great things about evergreen trees is that they generally don’t need a lot of pruning and shaping. But every once in a while these popular plants could use a little evergreen trim. Learn the simple steps to shaping and pruning evergreens.

Crape myrtles are most effective in the modern landscape when they’re allowed to grow naturally. Learn how to properly prune these attractive plants to reinforce their beautiful trunks and graceful shape.

Think you’ve got nothing to do in the garden this winter? If you’ve got fruit trees in your yard, grab those gardening gloves, pruning tools and your hat and coat. It’s time to do a little trimming to ensure healthy trees with lots of tasty fruit!

Special gardening tasks require special tools. Here are the tools needed for pruning, as well as a few quick tips on how to use them effectively.

Sometimes trees get neglected or grow too large, and major tree pruning is needed to get them back into shape. Follow this step-by-step demonstration on reduction pruning to get your deciduous trees healthy and back in good form.

If you’ve got an old, overgrown shrub that’s more of a nuisance than a garden joy, rejuvenate it with a good pruning. Don’t know how? Just follow this step-by-step guide and make what’s old new again!

All shrubs need some pruning to stay healthy and in shape. Learn how to keep your garden shrubs in good form season after season by following this easy step-by-step demonstration on how to properly prune them.

Small, young trees are simple to plant, rewarding to grow and easy on the wallet – but they do bring their challenges. Help your new little tree reach its full potential by properly picking, planting and pruning it right from the start.

Espalier is a training technique used to grow plants flat against a wall or fence. Not only do these plants create a living fence, they become works of art. Here’s how to start creating your own masterpiece.