The crisp nights and cool days of autumn provide perfect conditions for planting hardy shrubs. Discover which shrubs to plant in fall and learn how to select the best specimens for your garden.

I trimmed my boxwood shrubs at home this past weekend and the whir of my hedge trimmer lulled me into thinking about the plethora of questions I routinely receive from gardeners and homeowners about ...

Have you walked through your yard lately and wondered how those shrubs got so big? Most deciduous landscape shrubs benefit from annual pruning. It keeps them in shape, gets rid of dead and diseased ...

Have you walked through your yard lately and wondered how those shrubs got so big? Most deciduous landscape shrubs benefit from annual pruning. It keeps them in shape, gets rid of dead and diseased ...

Vol. 220, No. 2, Special Issue: Bloom and Bust: Ecological Consequences of Precipitation Variability in Aridlands (FEBRUARY 2019), pp. 213-225 (13 pages) Semi-arid regions worldwide are expected to ...

If some warmer days have you ready to be outside, one of the things on your to-do list should be pruning deciduous shrubs. It isn’t difficult if you follow a few rules of thumb. Start by determining ...

This column was prepared by Lake County Master Gardener Dotty Dunlap. Woody plants have numerous stems growing at their bases and most have latent buds (not visible or active) at these bases or along ...

Deciduous shrubs — those that lose their leaves each winter — are always sending up new stems at or near ground level. This makes them forgiving plants to prune. New growth, wherever needed, can ...

This week I’m listing the final five of my top 10 deciduous shrubs for urban gardens. My choices have taken into consideration their ease of growing as well as their lack of bad habits like suckering, ...

Litterbag methods were used to study the decomposition of leaves from an evergreen sclerophyll shrub, Ceanothus megacarpus, and a deciduous shrub, Salvia mellifera, in the chaparral of southern ...

For some reason this time of year -- fall -- finds us with the pruning shears in our hands and many of us get carried away. Most common shrubs and trees should be pruned in late winter or early spring ...