Cultivating fruit trees in your garden is incredibly fulfilling. They offer tasty, fresh fruit throughout the growing season and produce fragrant flowers that attract beneficial pollinators. Moreover, ...

Fig trees are prolific growers and can mature at 10 to 30 feet tall and wide. Pruning controls their size so they grow more bushlike than treelike. Native to Asia and the Mediterranean, they thrive in ...

Pruning at the wrong time can harm your tree and lead to less fruit, so timing really matters. Avoid pruning when trees are leafing out, during late summer, or in wet conditions to prevent stress and ...

If you’ve ever wrestled with an overgrown fruit tree, you know the struggle: branches reaching for the sky, fruit hiding in a tangled mess and those pesky suckers popping up everywhere. But don’t ...

When is a good time to prune my fruit trees? Fall is absolutely the worst time for pruning fruit trees. The best time to prune fruit trees is when the trees are dormant, although under certain ...

Incorrect pruning can lead to a host of problems. Pruning at the wrong time can harm your tree and lead to less fruit, so timing really matters. Avoid pruning when trees are leafing out, during late ...

In February, you can already spot the first signs of the approaching spring. Delicate buds form on branches, and some early ...

Focus on removing branches that are dead, weak, rubbing against others, or growing in the wrong direction to improve plant health. Deciduous trees like Japanese maples can be thinned out to showcase ...

About this time every year I stroll around my yard and check out my trees. Without leaves to block my view up into the tree, I look at my old friends to see if any dead or damaged branches need ...

Is it all right to prune all my shrubs and trees now or should I wait until later for some of them? Most pruning work can be done safely now, but there is one job that should be done as soon as ...