With a good pruning schedule you can keep hedges under control without too much effort. Most evergreen formal hedges like to be trimmed two or three times a year, while they're actively growing.

I would like to prune my shrubs so that they keep their natural shape instead of becoming hedges like some of my neighbors’. Could you give me some pointers or tell me where I can get some reliable ...

If you’re considering planting a hedge, now is a great time to do it. Hedges are a row of shrubs or small trees. They can grow to be only a few feet tall or as high as 15 feet. The shrubs may be ...

No plant wants to be a cube. Sharp angles and flat surfaces don’t come naturally. Yet smooth, geometric, formal hedges are a common and traditional feature of many home gardens as well as elaborate ...

Plants that may be pruned during the winter and early spring include most woody plants such as trees and shrubs, hedges, screens and foundation plantings that are not grown for their flowers. Both ...

SUMMER is already full of gardening jobs. From planting new blooms to mowing your lawn, any keen gardener's to-do list is already pretty full. But according to Gardeners’ World, there's one summer ...

Arborvitae, otherwise known as Thuja, is a well-known evergreen plant typically used as a hedge or boundary plant. With ...

CHASKA, Minn. — There’s a lot of different reasons to grow a hedge. Sometimes it’s for privacy, other times its just to define a space. But whatever reason you may have, the University of Minnesota ...

As well as producing flowers at a time of year when any and every fragile bloom is to be treasured, trees and shrubs provide structure to the winter garden. This can come in the form of loose outlines ...

The humble hedge can be an important garden feature, creating privacy, defining boundaries, and providing more benefits to wildlife than a fence or wall. Many traditional options create an effective ...

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