Lilacs are popular flowering shrubs for their fragrant colorful blooms. Many gardeners wonder exactly how and when to prune lilacs. Birds & Blooms reader Ken Kuhnen of Machesney Park, Illinois ...

Trim most deciduous bushes in late winter or early spring. Prune lilac bushes, forsythia, and other early-flowering shrubs immediately after fully blooming. There is no single month when it's best ...

Pruning roses ensures that the plants flower well each year and is an especially important task if you have climbing roses.

Each year as the snow melts and the warm temperatures begin I like to remind people about doing yard and garden work this time of year. We are a few weeks ahead of where we were last spring.