Pruning Mistakes - Fine Gardening

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With Winter Pruning on the Mind, Avoid Cutting on These Woody Plants

Winter is, broadly speaking, the ideal time to prune most trees and shrubs. Deeply dormant, these woody plants experience less stress when pruned in the winter months, and with cool…
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Pruning Conundrums | Letter from the Editor

Well, it turns out that I’ve been pruning my hydrangeas wrong this whole time. Not my bigleafs (Hydrangea macrophylla)—I have only a couple of those left in my beds, since…
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Avoid These Arborvitae Pruning Pitfalls

Arborvitaes (Thuja spp. and cvs., Zones 3–11) are a familiar staple in American gardens. Cultivars of Eastern arborvitae (T. occidentalis, Zones 3–7), Oriental arborvitae (T. orientalis, Zones 6–11), and giant Western…
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Five Common Pruning Mistakes, and How to Fix Them

Have you ever pruned so ineptly that your tree or shrub looks like a caricature? Well, don't despair. Help is at hand.

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