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2 of 10 Ways to Spruce Up Your Garden for Spring

By Lorraine • Mar 15th, 2010 • Category: Dig in, Spring

2.Prune it out Rule one of pruning: if a shrub blooms in spring or early summer, wait to prune until after it blooms. Otherwise, you’ll be nipping the current season’s flowers in the bud! Now is the time to prune late-flowering shrubs such as rose of Sharon, hydrangea (the mop-headed Annabelles can be cut right [...]


1 of 10 Ways to Spruce Up Your Garden for Spring

By Lorraine • Mar 13th, 2010 • Category: Dig in, Fresh Dirt, Spring

1.Make Cut Backs Stems and stalks of perennials like sedum, coneflower and phlox look wonderful growing through drifts of snow, but let’s face it, they’ve served their purpose, and as the world around them starts to turn green, their unsightly brown clumps should be chopped to the ground. Also remove the dead leaves of coral bells, [...]