My tall arborvitae hedge has several large branches sticking out. Can I cut those off or should I tuck them back into the hedge? It is also losing needles on the lowest branches. What should I do?

A hedge often makes a fantastic way of creating a boundary and giving privacy to a backyard. Pruning hedges is important to ...

You might be a topiary artist of sorts and not know it. Every time you cut a hedge, you are creating topiary, according to "Topiary Joe" Kyte. That's because you're making vegetation into unnatural ...

Here's how to get your trees and shrubs in great shape this winter.

Fences make good neighbors and so do hedges ... as long as they are done well. Hedges are the workhorses of the suburban garden. They define space. As superstars of the backdrop, they set the mood and ...

Dear Neil: My red oak is about 10 years old. Some of the leaves are starting to look distressed, so I looked closely. I noticed small red ants climbing up and down the trunk almost as if they are ...

Looking for a winter garden task? Pruning plants, shrubs, and trees can help improve growth and health. Here are some you ...

The next few weeks are some of the year’s best for pruning landscape plants – mainly woody-stemmed ones that already have bloomed for the year, as well as most needled evergreens. Spring-blooming ...

Are you one of those gardeners who group any task requiring shears under the pruning banner? It turns out deadheading is a ...

Keeping your yard in tip top shape involves the undertaking of dozens of smaller jobs that go along with the major ones like mowing your grass. Some of those jobs fall under the category of finishing ...