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Pruning in the dormant season is absolutely necessary for trees that form fruit on new wood. Nectarines and peaches are two trees that benefit from dormant pruning. Others, like apricot, cherry, and ...

Fruit trees, rhodies and many other plants, thrive with a July pruning. As the heat and drought of July crescendos, you may notice that spring’s tender new growth has turned into summer’s ...

With gardens in bloom, gardeners are busy at work this time of year. Pruning is one of my favorite gardening tasks, and the ...

GARDENING Three fruit trees that you must prune in March if you want to get the big harvest of the year in the summer. With Spring around the corner, plants, trees and shrubs will soon be bursting ...

Have you ever sat beneath the branches of a stately weeping willow in full bloom in late winter? Or have you ever taken in ...

Prune summer-flowering trees and shrubs in mid- to late-winter. Remove dead growth anytime. Dan Gill is a retired consumer horticulture specialist with the LSU AgCenter.

All fruit trees benefit from both summer and winter pruning. Peaches, nectarines, plums and apricots are all members of the Prunus genus and are therefore closely related.

Tip pruning in summer after the initial flowering period has ended may result in a second bloom. However, this isn't reliable and summer pruning can stress the tree and inhibit new growth.

In late summer, cut the flowering stems of yarrow back by one-third to one-half. Pruning stems to the lower basal foliage after summer blooms are done will tidy up the plant and prepare it for winter.