With the right tools and techniques, you’ll get the tree pruning job done safely and keep your tree healthy and strong.

Some trees grow into a nice shape at a measured rate with little help from the tree-planter. But most young trees benefit from some selected pruning cuts — especially in the first two to five years — ...

Take the guesswork out of harvesting with our guide on how to prune a peach tree to yield bigger, better fruit. Proper pruning at specific times helps maintain a manageable tree size and promotes ...

When it comes to garden upkeep, many plants and trees in your yard do well with a yearly cut back. Some love a tidy up in the cold winter months, while there are other plants you should be pruning in ...

Find out how to prune fruit trees properly, plus tips for timing your pruning right. Sure, unpruned fruit trees can still produce a crop. But knowing how to prune fruit trees properly helps them be ...

New growth or candles on a Scotch pine can be pruned in June. CONTRIBUTED New growth or candles on a Scotch pine can be pruned in June. CONTRIBUTED I sure hope this weekend will provide a bit of ...

Recently, while chatting with an arborist friend of mine with decades of experience, he mentioned he saw a tree service working on trees around the townhouses where he lives, which had been contracted ...

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 ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... January is a highly beneficial time to prune trees and shrubs because this is the dormant period for many plants in coastal California. This column provides ...

AND HOW TO DO IT. WITH A HANDSAW AND A CAREFUL CUT, THIS CAN BE PRIME TIME FOR PRUNING. SO I’LL TAKE THIS BACK AT THE ARNOLD ARBORETUM IN BOSTON. HORTICULTURISTS ARE TAKING ADVANTAGE OF A NARROW ...