Pruning Archives

Best practices while pruning

Pruning is tantamount to surgery for trees and shrubs. You’ll want to protect them from diseases by ensuring it’s performed perfectly. This video will share how to prepare your pruning tools in just a few minutes. Read more ►

Pruning climbing rose trees

Climbing rose trees are special and you can’t prune them like you would conventional rose trees.

Rose trees climbing along a latticed wall undergoing pruning

Growing an evergreen hedge

Choosing evergreen shrubs to grow as a hedge is often a great solution to cut off curious onlookers or simply to mark the limits of a garden.

Pruning eggplant, when, why and how

To maximize your crop this summer, remember to prune your eggplant correctly! To get things right, there are a few rules to follow. Let us tell you which ones.

In March, prune your roses!

March, near the end of winter, is the ideal month to prune your climbing, bush, and repeat-blooming rose trees… Let us tell you why.

How to prune rose trees in winter and why

Pruning wisteria, the Smart Tip Tutorial (+video)

Wisteria is a mystery; the more it’s hurt the more flowers it bears. Luckily us humans don’t work that way, because thanks to this Smart Tip Tutorial, learning how to prune wisteria is really easy! Season, tools, technique and guidelines, old wood: it’s all in these neat two minutes. Read more ►

Pruning plants like shrubs, fruit trees, rose trees…

Although plants survive in nature without being pruned, this practice is often needed to increase flowering or fruit formation.

Hard pruning of lavender, a three-year task

Lavender plants grow old and woody after 6 to 10 years. Through staged hard pruning, restore old wooden lavender to a nice,

Pruning grapevine, tips and guidance to succeed

The pruning of a grapevine is an important step that determines proper fruit formation and harvest.

Pruning apple and pear trees

Winter and the very beginning of spring are the most auspicious season for pruning a pear tree and an apple tree.

How to prune bush roses

Bush roses are actually roses which are submitted to a particular type of rose pruning that shapes them like a bush. To make them stand upright and produce flowers evenly throughout the bush, the guidelines in this Smart Tip Tutorial will prove invaluable! Read more ►

Pruning hydrangea, a 2 minute video with key steps

Blue, pink and all colors in between – if you want flowers next year, this video will show you how to prune hydrangea right. Get it wrong and you might cut flower buds off! Timing, technique and how to maintain the beautiful million-flower plant. Read more ►

Trimming hedges, the right time

When should a hedge be trimmed, what is the right timing, and how should one go about it best?

A woman kneeling timming a boxwood topiary hedge.

Pruning English rose trees

Pruning English roses is an essential step in order to expect beautiful blooming and nice roses in summer.

How to prune lavender that is woody

We often grow fond of lavender, but years later, it becomes old, woody, and overgrown. Here’s how to

Reducing thuja, a battered look for a year, before bursting back!

Thuja, or Arborvitae, is a long-living tree that just keeps growing. If you miss a few pruning seasons, you’ll have to cut it back hard! Here’s what Michel experienced.

Espalier training for apple and pear (2-minute video)

Apple and pear trees are regularly pruned to promote fruit-bearing. Did you know that shapes like palmette or espalier are more adapted to trees planted along a line or set against a wall? Here is a video on how to easily prune orchard fruit trees into palmette or espalier. Read more ►

Winter pruning of pip fruit trees

Although pruning is definitely a human invention, and trees can go without it to develop naturally, it presents the advantage of renewing the plant’s vigor and increasing its fruit productivity.

Pruning lavender, a 2-minute video

Lavender is a plant that blooms magnificently when the plant is well trimmed so that the best flowers and fragrance appear. This quick, fun video will explain how to trim and when to do it, with tools and calendar, to avoid useless old wood. Read more about trimming lavender ►

Pruning hydrangea after blooming: timing, technique, how much to remove

Hydrangea is a beautiful shrub, and pruning helps boost blooming and makes the plant healthier.

pruning caring bamboo.jpghydrangea after blooming

Pruning rose trees, when and how to do it

Pruning is an important step in the life cycle of a rose tree because it is the key to bearing great flowers.

Pruning trees and shrubs, why prune and when

Sometimes, it’s better not to prune than to prune wrong. Before going crazy with your hand pruner in the garden, learn why to prune and the do’s and don’ts of pruning.

Topiary, artful blending of beauty, perseverance, and imagination

Topiary is the art of pruning shrubs into specific shapes. Topiary key facts

Discover BRF or RCW, Ramial Chipped Wood, the next mulch revolution!

BRF is a common term in forestry. It is derived from the French “Bois Raméal Fragmenté”, or Ramial Chipped Wood. Anybody can make this mulch from crushed and shredded green wood branches. It’s the best mulch for enriching and protecting garden soil.

Ramial chipped wood is made from branches.

Tree pruning, a near-surgical operation to reduce or shape a tree

Need to prune a tree, whether due to a dead branch, a hazard, or simply an eyesore? Not sure how to go about it?

Proper garden tool care, key maintenance steps

After the last tasks of fall and before putting them away, it is important to thoroughly clean your tools.

Pruning finger lime, scaffold vs productive branches

Pruning a finger lime tree helps get healthy, tasty fruits year after year. It also protects this delicious but vulnerable citrus from diseases and pests. Here is

Pruning an apple tree or pear tree into an espalier shape

Pruning apple and pear trees to espalier or palmette is an interesting way to raise fruit productivity for apples and pears, and also to cover a wall.

Espalier pruning maximizes yields for apple and pear trees.

Fruit-inducing pruning, how to produce more fruit

Fruit inducing pruning is an important step in the growth of your fruit tree and gives you control over its productivity.

Pruning rose bush shrubs, technique and timing

Here is how to prune rose bush shrubs, proper timing and relevant techniques.

Pruning kiwi to increase harvests, a 2 minute video

Actinidia is the sweet scientific name of the kiwi plant, but pruning and caring for isn’t nearly as complicated with this simple easy video that shows when to prune, how to go about it and how long and short to cut. Read more ►

Prune repeat-blooming climbing roses in 2 minutes

Climbing roses are superb when attached to a lattice, but this video will show you how important it is to prune these magnificent rose trees well. They’ll bloom against their backdrop beautifully once you’ve learned how to snip and where to cut and tie the stems. Remove old wood and favor new shoots. Read more […]

Pruning English roses, video recap’ (2 minutes)

English roses, sometimes called heirloom roses or old roses are magnificent, and pruning is what keeps them so. An expert shares the tips and tricks on pruning these special fragrant roses in just a couple minutes, so you’ll waste no time getting down to business on making the world (and your garden) a more beautiful […]