Explore 20 of our favorite flowering, sun-loving shrubs that aren't hydrangeas. Here’s how to grow them in your garden. Bring ...

Pruning is an essential garden maintenance task as it keeps plants healthy and helps them grow to their full potential.

Many summer-flowering shrubs should be trimmed before winter ends, so don’t wait. Get out there on a sunny day and prune your ...

These pretty, early spring flowers are the first to pop up in the garden. That’s what makes hellebores, winter heath and ...

Discover which annuals, perennials, vegetables, trees, and shrubs to plant in winter. Learn how to establish seeds, bare root ...

If needed, extensive pruning should be done to spring-flowering trees and shrubs soon after they finish flowering. Prune ...

Flowering plants, in turn, reaped the benefits of seed ... They transported me to my barefoot youth at the edge of my dad's garden on a humid summer evening alive with fireflies and the murmur ...

But there’s lots you can do now to encourage spring growth, especially when it comes to pruning certain plants. The key is to focus your efforts on summer-flowering species, as opposed to spring ...

Pruning roses ensures that the plants flower well each year and is an especially important task if you have climbing roses.

To start a chaste tree from seed, collect and extract the seed from mature fruit in the fall. Plant it in a container filled with well-draining soil, water it, and leave it outdoors over the winter.

Plants that can be pruned now include most hedges, shrubs and shade trees, and summer-flowering trees and shrubs such as crape myrtle, oleander, vitex, althea and abelia. Walk around your ...