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 ...

Do yourself and your shrubs some good by getting outside to prune them in midwinter. “This time of year, when shrubs and small trees are dormant, is an easy time to prune them,” said Sharon Yiesla, ...

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 ...

If you have held off pruning or thinning early flowering deciduous shrubs, do it as soon as flowering is over. Some of these shrubs are early flowering species of viburnum, shrubby forms of ...

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 ...

Over the next several weeks, reinvigorate and shape deciduous shrubs (the ones that lose their leaves every fall) while they are dormant, using several pruning techniques. Pruning takes practice, but ...

Do you know the easiest way to stop a dog from digging in your garden? Take away his shovel. Digging dogs aren’t the only cause of plant problems; winter can be tough on plants, too. And of course, ...

Effects of artificial warming on phenology, individual leaf traits, vegetative growth, and reproduction of five alpine species (two deciduous and three evergreen shrubs) were investigated during three ...

Most leaf drop of deciduous trees and shrubs occurs by mid-December. Some plants will start dropping leaves as early as the second week of November while others drop leaves later. But of course, much ...

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 ...