If you want to prune your dogwood trees, any other time of the year is perfect, depending on your pruning goals. Pros recommend straying away from too much pruning and only getting rid of 15% to ...

Pruning a broken dogwood. Updated: Nov. 16, 2011, 1:08 p.m. ... Otherwise, for maximum flowering, wait until right after the tree blooms to prune and reshape it.

Pruning is an acceptable and even ideal time to prune most trees. If nothing else, it's easier to see the branch structure. Be aware that winter pruning will remove the flower buds of spring bloomers.

Pruning 1/3 of the oldest stems to the ground each year promotes younger stems with better color. ... Some dogwood trees can be underplanted with groundcovers to reduce weeds and add more greenery.

A cheery glimpse of color on a gray and wintry day: That’s why we plant shrubs with bright bark. Colorful bark is a main feature of red-osier dogwood (Cornus sericea subsp. sericea), Siberian… ...

Hardwood trees and shrubs without showy flowers: Prune in the dormant season to easily visualize the structure of the tree, to maximize wound closure in the growing season after pruning, to reduce ...

Common Dogwood Credit: Shutterstock There are many varieties of dogwood, from trees to shrubs, but the common dogwood is a deciduous shrub that benefits from annual pruning.

Dogwood-Dining Squirrels. By Scott Aker. January 2, 2008 at 7:00 p.m. EST. QThe squirrels in my neighborhood feasted on my dogwood trees in late summer.

Don’t panic if you’ve already pruned your dogwood; pruning in fall doesn’t mean woody plants will automatically die. Maybe you’ve pruned in the fall in the past and everything has been fine.

Q. About 15 years ago my dad gave me a dogwood seedling from his property in Hanover County. Back then I picked out a good spot and planted it. Well, I thought it was a good spot. It has grown very… ...

A: Early fall is generally not the time to prune woodies, the term horticulturists use for trees, shrubs and vines that do not die back. With killing frost still more than a month away, there is ...