Can You Save A Deer-Damaged Cedar Hedge?
What a shock when you realize that the deer got to your hedge over the winter. They are particularly fondContinue Reading
Category: Pruning
When A Top Graft Fails
Top-grafted shrubs, also called top-grafted standards or just standards, are shrubs grafted on top of the upright stem of a relatedContinue Reading
Lazy Susan for Houseplants
If you have a lazy susan in your kitchen that you don’t use much, you might want to recycle itContinue Reading
Late Winter, Early Spring: Time to Prune Your Houseplants
Don’t hesitate to prune houseplants that have gotten too tall, overgrown or lopsided or are taking up too much space:Continue Reading
Give Trimmed Leaves a More Natural Look
Many houseplant’s leaves die back bit by bit, starting at the tip, especially those that have long and narrow leaves,Continue Reading
Grow Your Own Coleus Tree
Here is a DIY project for a laidback (because it requires little effort) but patient gardener (because it takes 18Continue Reading
Unobtrusive Staking for Houseplants
In a perfect indoor gardening world, you wouldn’t need to stake a non-climbing plant. Its branches would be thick and solid, perfectlyContinue Reading
When and How to Trim a Cedar Hedge
I’m far too laidback to maintain a cedar hedge*, that is a hedge of Thuja occidentalis, also called arborvitae. I leaveContinue Reading
When To Prune Flowering Shrubs
Gardeners seem very concerned about when to prune broadleaf shrubs, as if trimming them at the wrong time of the yearContinue Reading