Tips and advice about pruning the plants and trees in your garden.
Pruning an Avocado PlantKeeping the height of a potted avocado tree under control requires careful pruning to increase fullness and reduce overall height. This is a page about pruning an avocado plant.
Pruning a Dracaena or Dragon Tree?This is a page about pruning a dracaena or dragon tree. These easy to grow large succulents are a favorite houseplant. Proper pruning can help create the grow patterns you want.
Pruning Times: What and When to PruneProper pruning is a good way to help your trees and shrubs stay healthy and strong. This page is about pruning times: what and when to prune.
Pruning a ClematisThis is a page about pruning a clematis. The clematis is a superb floral addition to your yard. With it's bright large flowers and hearty vine like growth, this flower is as much fin to grow as it is to admire.
Pinching Off Dead BloomsMany flowering plants will continue to flower if you remove spent blossoms. This page is about pinching off dead blooms.
Pruning ShrubsMost books describe pruning as an art. Depending on the type of shrub, you will be shaping the plant or encouraging blooming. This is a page about pruning shrubs (pdf).
Pruning a Hummingbird VineThis is a page about pruning a hummingbird vine. A variety of perennial vines invite hummingbirds to visit their flowers, and need to be pruned back before their next growing season.
Pruning a Passionflower?Do I cut back or prune my passionflower plants? They have flowered lovely for their first year and still are, as a matter of interest.
Pruning Kiwi Vines?Do I need to prune a Kiwi that has yet to fruit?
Pruning a Variegated Sedge?I have numerous variegated sedges planted in my yard. Our lawn maintenance service pruned them almost to the ground in the Fall. I know it is still a little early in year, but they don't seem to be coming back. Did he kill them?
Pruning a Dewberry Vine?I wanted to find out if I cut the dewberry "stem", not the vine on which the berries are, would it harm dewberry growth. They are in the way when I try to pick the berries and didn't want to cause harm to the plant.
When Do I Prune My Hydrangea?What is the proper time to prune a hydrangea?
Trimming Ivy Runners?When cutting ivy runners, is there a certain area to cut to allow the plant to keep growing the runners?
Pruning a Baptisia Plant?When does one prune a Baptisia? I have looked it up online and cannot find a definitive answer. I know that I would not do it in the spring because I would have no flowers. Also, how far back can I prune it?
Pruning Annual Flowers?Has anybody ever pruned African daisies or other annuals? My African daisies were looking pretty scraggly this morning. So, I cut them back to about 4 inches tall rather than take out the plants.
Where Can I Find a Pruning Guide for All My Garden Plants? I was after a simple calendar or guide that could tell me when to prune all the different types of roses, shrubs, trees, etc. in my garden
Pruning a Schefflera Plant?I have a large schefflera plant that needs to be cut back before I bring it back into the house. Does anyone know how do this?
Pruning an Umbrella Plant?How do you prune an umbrella plant?
Pruning A Japanese Holly Bush?When is it the best time to prune a Japanese Holly bush?
Will a Lilac Bloom After Pruning?My lilacs grew so high and blooming into next door's yard, that I pruned the main stems (trunks) way down. Now all these suckers are growing very green, but can they ever bloom? Thanks.
Can You Trim A Bush In Hot Weather?I live in Phoenix, Arizona and the high temp here has been around 100 lately. I've got a rose bush that is falling over my walkway to my front door. If I trim the bush in this hot weather, will it harm it?
Advice For Pruning Trumpet Vines?I need advice on pruning Trumpet Vines (Humming Bird Vines). I have already cut the vine back to about an inch or two above ground, after it's first year of growth, last fall and mulched it. We had excessive snow this past winter. Will it come back, or have I killed it? I thought it was like my clematis, which I cut down each year.
Pruning Gabriel's Trumpet Plant?I need to prune a Gabriel's trumpet plant/tree to a canopy instead of straight up and down. Any advice?
Pruning a Rubber Tree Plant?When can I cut back a rubber tree plant?
Pruning Back a Clematis?I am going to have my house painted and I have three really large clematis vines that reach very high. They are right up against the house and are going to have to come down. Will cutting them this early in the season harm them?
Dead Heading a Hydrangea?When is the best time to remove mop head flowers from my hydrangea?
Pruning a Hydrangea?When do I prune my Quick Fire hydrangea?
Pruning a Clematis?When and how much should a clematis be pruned in east Tennessee? The plant is 2 years old and has bloomed a lot, but not so much now!
Growing a Norfolk Pine Indoors?My Norfolk pine is getting too tall for the house. Can I pinch it back?It is an indoor plant that I put out on the deck in the summer.
