Lemon trees need pruning to shape, improve airflow, and boost fruit production. Here's when you should do it and how to get it right for a healthy harvest.

Butterfly Bush is one of those shrubs that gets the best of a lot of us. We never can truly anticipate just how huge they can ...

Poinsettia plants can last for years after the holiday season — if you know how to treat them right. Here's the pruning ...

Unfortunately they often prune plants that should not be pruned. Flowering shrubs such as lilac, azalea and rhododendron set their flower buds in the late summer and fall. If pruned in the winter many ...

For plants growing in the ground, cold protection is done to preserve the life of the tropical plant — not to bring it ...

The best color is on new growth — branches that are just a year or two old. Older branches will turn grayish or brown. “To ...

Propagating plants you love is satisfying and economical, so I hope you will give it a try, Penny Pawl, a UC Master Gardener ...