I got an email from one of my readers a couple of weeks ago who has enjoyed my column for a number of years, and she asked me whether she should prune her lilac now and how she should go about pruning ...

Q: We have a large tree-form lilac that needs to be trimmed back quite significantly. I can’t trim very far before I cut off a lot of leaves. What’s the best way to do this? Should I be concerned that ...

It seems lilacs always have been in one part of my mother’s garden as it was with my grandmother. Most of the time you really don’t think much of the things that normally are a part of your life. I ...

A desire to tidy up the garden and do something outdoors — even before anything much is really happening there yet, garden-wise — drives many of us out to prune now. Good. Advertisement Article ...

WEBVTT >> WELCOME TO TODAY'S GROW IT GREEN. WE'RE AT BUTTER NUT FARM AND I'MJOINED BY MARY FROM UNH COOPERATIVE EXTENSION. TODAY WE'RE GOING TO TALK ABOUT PRUNING THE STATE FLOWER.>> YES, WE ARE, ...

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 ...

As February’s milder days arrive, UK gardeners gain a brief window to reshape certain trees without harming blossom or yield. Which species truly relish a late winter prune? Those first milder days of ...