After many years working as a professional gardener, these are my go-to plants to prune in July, for a thriving yard in the ...

Carrie Engel from Valley View Farms answers plant and gardening questions, including pruning a lilac.

Bloomerang lilac trees are available in pink and purple varieties and you can easily complement them with some similarly hued plants that are equally deer-resistant.

Q My lilac tree, planted two years ago, has yet to blossom. It is about four feet high and very healthy, and though it seems to get full sun for a fair bit of the day, it is planted under large ...

Dear L.C. Is your plant is a lilac bush or a tree lilac? Common lilac (Syringa vulgaris) bushes can get 15 to 20 feet tall. They usually have several stems. The strongly fragrant flowers appear in ...

Large tree-form lilac would benefit from pruning In Fielding Questions, readers also asked about why cucumbers might be ailing and what to do about mushrooms in the lawn.

One of the most common temperature-sensitive plants is the humble lilac. Its buds are triggered not by light but by soil temperature. The rule of thumb is to plant your peas when lilac leaves are ...

Q. I would like to ask about the possibilities of growing in Houston: flowering crabtree and a purple lilac tree or bush. Will they thrive in this climate?

THE lilac chaste tree, or vitex, is seeing a revival of this great, old-fashioned plant, which some consider a small tree and others describe as a large shrub.

By the time I cleared those out, half the tree was missing. Now I have branches growing up and out, some others hanging and losing leaves, and a very sad plant. Should I just prune everything down?