Select the right cutting tool for your evergreen shrubs, such as pruning shears, lopping shears, pruning saws, hedge shears, or pole pruners. Don't forget gardening gloves and safety glasses. Clean ...

The best time to prune evergreen shrubs is typically early spring—around late March to early April. For narrow-leaf, needled ...

Hold off on pruning. Winter is a good time to prune a deciduous tree or shrub, but not an evergreen. Because the plant isn’t dormant, pruning in winter can stimulate new growth, prompting soft new ...

floridanum), aren’t trees at all but shrubs. Its spicily scented wood makes it one of the best-smelling evergreens ... hollies don’t require much pruning unless you want to control their ...

While hedges and shrubs are great for creating privacy, you might want to consider using evergreens that will hold up ...

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.

Stevens holly? How much can I trim it? The best time to trim and reshape any evergreen shrub is late winter, a few weeks before the burst of spring growth. That’s especially important if you ...

A wall of green can be a barrier between your space and the outside world, can define a space in your landscape.

Early pruning helps establish a shapely shrub with vigorous, balanced growth. Most evergreen shrubs do not need thinning or formative pruning. However all shrubs benefit from shortening any ...