With the right tools and techniques, you’ll get the tree pruning job done safely and keep your tree healthy and strong.

March marks the arrival of spring each year, a time associated with greenery and new growth — in short, a gardener’s dream. But with the return of warmer temperatures comes various yard tasks to ...

DEAR NEIL: We have moved into a 50-year-old house that has a mature Arizona ash. It’s too wide for where it is. I’m afraid its branches will break in a storm. When can it be pruned? Dear Reader: You ...

A gloved hand holding red pruning shears - Mariana Serdynska/Shutterstock If you need motivation to go out in the January cold to do some garden work, picture a tree covered in showy white flowers in ...

It’s often pent-up energy that pushes a gardener outside in the dead of winter. It all starts innocently enough—you check on a few plants and then gather a few fallen branches. Before you know it, you ...

Put your pruning shears away this spring when it comes to these eight kinds of trees.