Regular pruning encoura... advertisement. Bob Vila. Prune These 10 Plants Before Summer Ends (Your Future Self Will ... “Fruit trees need dead or crossing branches removed to enhance air ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

Flowering shrubs that bloom in summer or early fall (i.e. butterfly bush, caryopteris, rose-of-sharon, panicle hydrangeas, etc.) are best pruned at the end of winter (going into the new growing season ...

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 ...

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.

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.

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.