If you are inclined to prune your pine trees, now is the perfect time to do so. Most people don’t prune mature pine trees, but many prune mugho pines, which are more of a shrub. Pruning these keeps ...

If you have a pine shrub or tree in your yard, spring is the time to control its growth. Keeping a pine in check is not a simple matter of pruning branches. “Pines aren’t like other evergreens,” said ...

If you have a pine tree or shrub (Mugho) and you are interested in pruning it, now is the time. However, before you prune, you should determine if it needs pruning. For the most part, pine trees in ...

Jun. 14—We are near the summer solstice: the first day of summer. With sunrise at 5:15 a.m. and the sun setting at 9:06 p.m., daylight is longer than any other day of the year (nearly 16 hours at this ...

Pruning is an important garden task. Besides simply keeping growth in check, proper pruning also keeps trees and shrubs healthy by ensuring that light and air can reach all the branches. Pruning at ...

Learn valuable tips and techniques for pruning evergreens. Extension educator Elizabeth Exstrom provides valuable tips and techniques for pruning evergreen trees and identifying whether or not a tree ...

We’re pruning pine, incense cedar and spruce trees now. Some have branches hanging in the way of the driveway or gates. Others have dead or dying branches. We had delayed pruning until after a hard ...