When and how to trim your yard's shrubs and evergreens? Check out this how-to video by PennLive garden writer George Weigel.

Question: Our ligustrum hedge has grown over the sidewalk. Can it be pruned back at this time? Answer: Give your hedge the needed pruning but soon. You can reduce both the height and width of the l… ...

On roses and other shrubs you cut back, you can use a light sprinkling of a general lawn fertilizer like 15-5-10 or even better, one with slow release nitrogen like 28-3-12.

Most broadleaf shrubs (such as azaleas, camellias, ligustrum, abelia, and cleyera) respond well to renewal pruning. Boxwoods, however, recover slowly and may even die when severely pruned unless the ...