Focus your additions on plants with narrow leaves, tiny leaves, succulent leaves, fuzzy leaves, silvery leaves, hard leathery ...

I worked in large and varied gardens during my years as a professional gardener in the UK. This gave me a wide experience of pruning trees, shrubs, and perennials throughout fall and into winter.

They say: ‘The best time is in early spring before the plant is ready to put out new growth, so it has the full growing season to fill out and for the new growth to mature.’ Attempting major pruning ...

Pruning serves many purposes: it encourages bigger yields, ensures that newly planted trees and shrubs have a strong beginning, stimulates flowering, shapes plants, cuts away diseased wood, and ...

Pruning during this time of the year involves cutting back and reshaping certain plants to encourage strong healthy growth and plenty of fruit and flowers. Carrying out the gardening job now can ...

Doing so will "help the plant as it flowers healthy large blooms on the previous season's wood", while any drastic pruning may "restrict flowering the following year and lead to damage".

Pruning falls into three parts. The first is the goal of pruning, the second is when and the third is how. There is also an additional part, which is the plants you are pruning. Plants in nature do ...

Some things just get better with time—French wine, vintage Chanel, and, yes, even plants. Crassula ovata—better known as the jade plant—is a sophisticated succulent that rewards thoughtful ...