Get your garden ready for spring with this essential January pruning checklist. From fruit trees to roses, these are the ...

There are so many jobs to do in your yard to prepare for spring that it’s easy to run out of time before they are all completed. However, certain jobs, like pruning roses, must be done at the right ...

Although roses sometimes don’t go completely dormant, they experience a period of slow growth and partial dormancy in the ...

Prune rose of Sharon in late winter or early spring—this avoids disease and protects summer blooms. Pruning shapes the plant, improves airflow, and can rejuvenate older bushes if cut back heavily.

If you want the most blooms on your climbing roses next spring, you should prune the right way and at the right time. These gardening tips and tricks will help.

A guide to plants to prune in January, including shrubs and vines that flower on new growth, which will reward any trimming with a great display of blooms ...

Pruning climbing roses is very different from pruning bush roses. For one thing, we rarely cut them back hard the way we do bush roses. That would defeat the purpose of planting a climbing rose — to ...

As we enter the waning days of summer, many of our plants are just plain tired after enduring months of heat — and they’re showing it. Roses are no exception. They tend to get a bit leggy and ...

I find pruning to be a really gratifying one-on-one time with each of my roses. It is enjoyable because I understand why pruning benefits my plants, and because I know how to prune roses. When we ...

Q. My Rose of Sharon is becoming quite large and seems to be producing fewer flowers each year. What can I do? A. I noticed Rose of Sharon in flower in late summer when I traveled out and about in the ...

Garden columnist Dan Gill answers readers' questions each week. To send a question, email Gill at [email protected]. I need some advice on pruning a climbing rose trained on a wrought iron ...