Flowering trees can undoubtedly put on dazzling summer performances, providing vivid color and attracting butterflies, bees, and hummingbirds into the garden. For an ultimate performance, gardeners ...

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 ...

Some trees grow into a nice shape at a measured rate with little help from the tree-planter. But most young trees benefit from some selected pruning cuts — especially in the first two to five years — ...

Growing a citrus tree indoors can be a rewarding experience. It brings a touch of the tropics into your home, while also providing delicious, fresh fruits. Adequate sunlight, well-draining soil, and ...

Orcharding requires effort, but the resulting yields of fresh fruit make it all worthwhile. One of the most important aspects of growing fruit trees is pruning. This applies to large commercial and ...

Apple trees (or any other fruit trees, for that matter), if they’re going to produce quality fruit, require regular maintenance. Pruning is fundamental. We prune to improve structure, flowering and ...

An expert guide to plants to prune in May, including spring-flowering shrubs, perennials, and evergreens, together with those ...

Recently, while chatting with an arborist friend of mine with decades of experience, he mentioned he saw a tree service working on trees around the townhouses where he lives, which had been contracted ...

Winter is the perfect time to prune oak trees. Oak trees are special for many reasons: they’re Iowa’s state tree, they’re important to our ecosystem and — they shouldn’t be pruned during the spring ...