Pruning spruce trees at the right time and with the right techniques can keep them healthy, beautiful, and safe for decades. Late winter to early spring is the ideal season to remove dead, diseased, ...

Q: I have volunteered to help our church with yard maintenance. I need to trim back all the bushes, but my concern is the blue spruce tree. It is a very nice tree, but it is growing over the parking ...

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

Shrubs and trees can be pruned to improve structure, maximize blooms and/or fruit production, or to remove damaged or diseased branches. Such branches should be removed as soon as possible. They ...

Garden long enough, and you’re almost guaranteed to one day encounter a nest of stinging insects while pruning or weeding. Yellowjackets and baldfaced hornets are two of the most common bugs that ...