Spring is the worst time of year to prune your dogwood tree because you can negatively impact spring blooms. If you want to prune your dogwood trees, any other time of the year is perfect, depending ...

ciscoe How to prune Cornelian Cherry Dogwood Cornelian Cherry Dogwood is one of the first shrubs to flower in late Winter and early Spring.

Winter pruning can keep shrubs healthy and vibrant by stimulating fresh growth. There’s never a dull moment in the garden, no matter the season. Today we're tackling an important cold-weather job in ...

I’d love to grow native grasses or wildflowers, but how can I control this invasive that comes at me from my neighbors? The impenetrable thickets of 6-8 foot Japanese knotweed are bad. So bad that, in ...

A cheery glimpse of color on a gray and wintry day: That’s why we plant shrubs with bright bark. Colorful bark is a main feature of red-osier dogwood (Cornus sericea subsp. sericea), Siberian dogwood ...

Do you have a red-twig dogwood whose stems are grayer than red? How about a Forsythia that only blooms near branch ends? Maybe an old lilac with bare, twiggy stems on the bottom half? These are shrub ...