Knowing how to prune cherry trees effectively will help you keep them healthy and bearing delicious fruit for years to come. It's essential to carry out a pruning session at the right time of year to ...

A cluster of sweet cherries hanging from a tree during sunset. - Vvvita/Getty Images If your sweet cherry tree (Prunus avium) is producing fruit that's small or not as sweet as you expected, you might ...

Sure, unpruned fruit trees can still produce a crop. But knowing how to prune fruit trees properly helps them be more productive and the fruit will be easier to harvest. This guide explains the ...

Q: I missed pruning my cherry tree when it was dormant, and now it’s in full bloom. Is it too late to prune? A: No, it is not too late to prune your cherry tree this year in fact you may have saved ...

Winter is usually the ideal slow time in the yard or garden to cut things back and tidy up. But pruning certain plants when ...

If you’ve planted fruit trees such as apple, peach or persimmon in hopes of enjoying the crop, you’ll need to prune them. “Fruit tree pruning can have different goals than pruning typical landscape ...

This is the time of year when you can take large amounts of wood from trees, shrubs and many of our flowering and nonflowering plants in a process called pruning. Break out your loppers or handsaw and ...

Commonly called Chinese fringe flower, this popular shrub is another old wood bloomer. Pruning in the fall will remove the ...

Q: What’s growing on the trunk of my lilac tree? — Phyllis D. A: Your photo shows mushrooms growing on the trunk, which are the visible, exterior "fruiting bodies" of fungi. Mushrooms generally live ...