Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Michael Davis / Getty Images Lilacs should be pruned annually as part of your spring/summer garden maintenance checklist. If your ...

Cutting off dead and damaged wood and controlling the number of stems on the shrub are vital to lilac care. Left unpruned, mature lilacs become choked with old wood and deadwood and produce few ...

Hardy and resilient, a lilac can live for many decades, and if it is not regularly pruned, it can become tangled, overgrown ...

If your lilac bush isn't blooming as expected, a common care issue could be holding it back, even if everything else in your garden seems on track.

Pruning lilacs after flowering can mean the difference between bare branches and clouds of bloom next spring – are you timing ...

Joe Swift, presenter of Gardeners’ World, shared his top tips for pruning lilacs and highlighted nine of the "finest" ...

Here’s how to help your blooms thrive for as long as possible.

Q: We have a large tree-form lilac that needs to be trimmed back quite significantly. I can’t trim very far before I cut off a lot of leaves. What’s the best way to do this? Should I be concerned that ...

Albuquerque gardener explains how to safely prune lilacs and forsythia now, plus tips for roses, green waste pickup and ...

Lilacs, along with most other flowers, seem to be blooming much earlier this year in Iowa. Flowers that we'd usually see on Mother's Day are in full bloom now. If your lilacs aren't performing well ...

Someone told me to plant zucchini early to avoid problems with squash bugs. Is this true? When should zucchini seeds be planted? Whoever told you that had completely wrong information! Planting ...

Lilac blossoms are a sign spring season is well underway, with your garden beginning to put on displays of color and fragrance. The large white, pink, and purple flowers of well-cared-for lilacs, ...