Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. white spirea flowers Spirea, or spiraea, are popular perennial shrubs with pretty blooms in spring and summer. They're generally ...

Spirea is a group of hardworking flowering shrubs that grow with gusto in all kinds of conditions. With all that growth, these plants benefit from an annual trim, but when to prune spirea? It depends ...

Pruning your shrubs is perhaps the least exciting part of gardening (though it may still beat weeding). But when it's done at the right time and with the proper technique, it can produce great results ...

Pruning shrubs is almost as much art as it is science, and it's very difficult to explain with only words. But I find it's helpful to think of pruning as cutting hair -- if you make a mistake, it will ...

Between spring’s first flowers and summer’s blooms, a little pruning can pay off in a big way. From perennials that tend to get leggy to plants that rebloom after a good trim—and flowering shrubs that ...