Flowering shrubs that bloom in summer or early fall (i.e. butterfly bush, caryopteris, rose-of-sharon, panicle hydrangeas, etc.) are best pruned at the end of winter (going into the new growing season ...

Filling your garden with color all year round is a guaranteed way to keep things looking bright and alive, no matter what the ...

Below, you’ll find a top 10 list of spring-flowering shrubs (in order of flower appearance). Figure 1. Witch-hazel is one of the first shrubs to bloom in the spring. Though similar to forsythia, it ...

Late winter can be a good time to force branches from spring-flowering trees and shrubs to bloom indoors. Once buds open, move the branches to a brighter room, out of direct sunlight.

There is a good mix of plants to prune in May. It ranges from spring-flowering shrubs, which may need attention to stay in the best shape for next year’s blooming, to summer-flowering herbaceous ...

Spring flowering shrubs set the buds for next year during the summer. If you prune these shrubs in the fall, you are pruning off next year’s flowers. Sometimes it is necessary to prune out of ...

Beloved for their late winter flowers, hellebores or Lenten roses produce thick, evergreen foliage in dense mounds reaching ...

Collecting branches to force indoors. For most spring-flowering trees and shrubs, forcing can be done as soon as the buds on the branches begin to swell in late winter.