Just a few cuts can maintain their natural beauty.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. While most varieties of Japanese maples grow only 6 to 12 inches a year, pruning helps maintain their shape and keep them healthy.

A red Japanese maple tree standing in a yard with other maples and plants. - Mtreasure/Getty Images Maintaining the shape of shrubs and trees is a practice that has been associated with beauty and ...

That urge to grab your pruners the moment temperatures rise is one of the most natural impulses in gardening, and one of the ...

Landscaping expert Todd Bowman shared essential pruning tips for various plants, emphasizing timing and techniques for ...

I asked an experienced arborist the other day what he thought about pruning apple trees in the fall. His answer was the same as mine: “Prune when you have time and the pruners in your hand.” Yes, ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... January is a highly beneficial time to prune trees and shrubs because this is the dormant period for many plants in coastal California. This column provides ...

There’s an old saying in pruning: “Prune until it hurts, and then prune some more.” The advice helps overcome our fear of cutting away too many branches. Other pruning adages are less useful. “When in ...

The effects of the changing climate are felt in all aspects of ecology, from the melting of the ice caps to the acidification of the oceans. However, one more recent finding suggests that even trees ...