Missing regular maintenance can leave lilacs sparse and uneven, but one pruning strategy offers a way to restore shape and ...

Pruning at the wrong time can cut off next season's growth.

Lilacs are a springtime favorite beloved for their fragrant blooms and cottage garden charm, but pruning them at the wrong ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Michael Davis / Getty Images Lilacs should be pruned annually as part of your spring/summer garden maintenance checklist. If your ...

Trees and shrub species vary in their prime time to be pruned. Some species have a wide window of opportunity for 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 ...

What to Prune in June (and What to Leave Alone) originally appeared on Dengarden. Pruning is a common gardening practice where cutting away certain parts of a plant, such as its branches, buds or ...

Lilacs are an icon of spring, blooming in shades from deep purple to pale lavender to white all over the Chicago area. Yet lilac bushes can be monsters. Hardy and resilient, a lilac can live for many ...

Q: My wife and I were out of town for most of March and three-fourths of April on family business. We missed all of our lilac and forsythia blooms and haven’t, as of yet, done any after-bloom pruning.

Many plants benefit from some type of pruning, whether it's a conservative reshaping or a harder cut to rejuvenate. One plant that benefits greatly from pruning is the lilac shrub. Over time, lilacs ...