Here's a garden expert's advice on how and when you should prune lilac bushes to enjoy fragrant spring flowers.

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

Trimming bushes is an essential part of bush maintenance and health. However, there are times when trimming your bushes is not recommended. Knowing when not to trim your bushes is just as important as ...

Some reasons to prune are to train a plant, maintain plant health, improve the quality of flowers, fruits and stems, restrict growth, remove damaged and diseased branches, and to increase air ...

We all secretly hope for dozens of cut-flower roses, bushels of apples, buckets of dahlias, quarts and quarts of blueberries and lilac drooping under the ... to create new growth in attractive bushes.

Q: I have two lilac bushes that have never bloomed. They are several years old and about 3 to 4 feet tall. How do I get them to bloom? — BarbS575, New Mexico A: It would break my heart to have ...

Pruning helps not only to improve the flowering of the plant but also to add aesthetics to your garden. So, in January, you should avoid pruning spring-flowering shrubs such as forsythia, lilacs, and ...

The following pruning practices apply to all roses except certain shrub and species roses. Use sharp pruners. Remove wood that is obviously dead and wood that has no healthy growth coming from it, ...

Jamison and Walker tells Parade Home and Garden that the most common flowers in spring are usually tulips, daffodils, ...

Cordon tomatoes, also known as indeterminate tomatoes, are grown as tall, single-stemmed plants and need regular pruning to maximise fruiting potential and ensure good airflow between plants. Trailing ...