Tomato plants often produce an abundance of leaves but not enough fruit. By simply pruning, you can balance their growth to yield more and larger tomatoes. Removing excess foliage not only increases ...

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Pruning is a necessary task when you're gardening, but did you know there's a right and wrong way to do it? It's not as simple as just hacking away at pieces of your plants and hoping for the best. In ...

Because money trees are fast-growing houseplants, you might find you need to cut yours back from time to time to maintain it at a manageable size. Knowing how to prune a money tree (Pachira aquatica) ...

Looking at the tangle of branches and vines in an unpruned garden immediately shows the importance of proper annual pruning. A properly pruned garden has an open, clean, legible and inviting look to ...

Deciduous shrubs — those that lose their leaves each winter — are always sending up new stems at or near ground level. This makes them forgiving plants to prune. New growth, wherever needed, can ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. blue sky in my pocket / Getty Images Jade plants are regal, tree-shaped succulents that can be the stars of your plant collection.

A spring-blooming shrub like forsythia should be pruned after it flowers so that the following year it lives up to its potential. (Neil Bell) You've got clippers in hand, a shrub in mind and a gleam ...

Hydrangea macrophylla produces big rounded pink and blue flowers. They bloom best on old wood but can also set a flower late in the season on new wood. K-State Research and Extension When it comes to ...

Back in my younger days, when I played golf three to four times a week, I typically figured it out on my own rather than admitting I needed lessons. But during one particularly troubling season, I ...