According to an old saying, if you’ve properly pruned your shrubs, they shouldn’t look pruned. That’s sage advice — unless, of course, you’re pruning shrubs to look like Donald Duck at Disney World.

The common purple lilac is a tough, reliable shrub that may reach a height of 15 to 20 feet. Unfortunately, as lilacs mature, the shaded lower portions of the shrubs usually lose their leaves. As a ...

Pruning lilacs properly is the key to getting the most flowers on these popular shrubs. A stunned Chicago Bears locker room asks, ‘What the eff just happened?’ after another last-second loss to the ...

With the anticipation of spring and returning pops of color, you may find your forsythia and lilac a bit lackluster, if improperly managed. The early-blooming and free-flowing forsythia, if managed ...

Usually, you wait until the chance of frost has passed before getting out your pruning shears. This bushy, yellow-flowering ...

I got an email from one of my readers a couple of weeks ago who has enjoyed my column for a number of years, and she asked me whether she should prune her lilac now and how she should go about pruning ...

Discover how to grow lilac, Syringa, and you can enjoy clusters of fragrant blooms in mauve, pink, purple, or white in the springtime. Meet their simple needs and lilacs are easy to care for, ...

Master Gardener Ciscoe Morris is back with us, and this time he's talking all about lilacs! He shares with Amity how to keep these beautiful flowers in great condition so they'll last longer and bloom ...

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