CORVALLIS – Wisteria delivers a beautiful spring display, but this vigorous vine needs plenty of pruning to keep it from swallowing the garden. “Wisteria are very vigorous vines and can climb easily ...

Few plants capture the romance of an English garden like wisteria, with their cascading clusters of fragrant, lilac blooms. But once the flowers fade, many gardeners panic when the leaves turn yellow.

CORVALLIS, Ore. — Wisteria delivers a beautiful spring display, but this vigorous vine needs plenty of pruning to keep it from swallowing the garden. “Wisteria are very vigorous vines and can climb ...

Pruning ornamental trees and shrubs are both different and similar to pruning fruit trees and shrubs. First the similarities. Major pruning (using a saw or loppers) is done during the winter months ...

We’re at that crucial turning point in the season. Summer has finished up and we’re just about to tip into fall, which means it’s time to get those last-minute gardening jobs out the way before the ...

If you’re a gardener anxiously anticipating spring, why not brave the cold and do some gardening now? Believe it or not, the dead of winter is a good time to prune some of the plants in your garden.

Near the end of July, the late summer blooms of dahlias, sunflowers and phlox take over the flower garden while harvest of tomatoes, cucumbers and beans allow home gardeners to taste their rewards.

The seasonal transition from summer to autumn is traditionally a busy time in any garden. Along with routine tasks such as watering plants, deadheading flowers, and harvesting fruits and vegetables, ...

January is a highly beneficial time to prune trees and shrubs because this is the dormant period for many plants in coastal California. This column provides specific recommendations for the Monterey ...