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Best Time to Prune Flowering Shrubs

This is a guide about the best time to prune flowering shrubs. Flowering shrubs like azaleas, lilacs, butterfly bush, hydrangea, and many more can provide beauty for years to come, but look best if they are pruned at the right time.

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Pruning Spirea

When is the best time to trim my pink spirea, fall or spring?

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Trimmed Edges of Evergreen Bushes Turned Brown

I recently had several evergreen bushes trimmed by a landscaper and a day or so later all of the edges turned brown. What caused this?

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Pruning Camellias

When should I prune my spring flowering camellias? Thanks.

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Pruning a Hydrangea

A friend of my husband gave him a start of a hydrangea last year. Do you cut it down and if so when?

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Pruning a Hardy Fuchsia

Can I prune a hardy fuchsia now? If so how close to the ground can I go? I have pruned it in the spring in the past after it begins to leaf out and used that as my guide for how much stem to remove. But this year I would like to take it further back. Thanks in advance.

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Pruning a Burning Bush

What is the proper time to prune a burning bush?

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When Do I Prune My Hydrangea?

What is the proper time to prune a hydrangea?

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Pruning a Scheflera Shrub

How do I prune a scheflera that is not a dwarf?

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Pruning a Lilac Bush

When and how do you prune a lilac bush?

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Pruning Potentillas

I have Potentillas growing up both sides of my laneway and I would like to know, if you can prune Potentillas.

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Tidy Bush Trimming

Don't like to trim bushes because it's messy? Try this method. Put an old sheet under the bush you need to trim. Make sure it's all the way around the bush. Trim your bush as usual.

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