Flowering shrubs bring year-round beauty to your landscape. But to look and perform their best, flowering shrubs need regular pruning. But pruning flowering shrubs is very different from pruning trees ...

Once buds have formed, stop fertilizing until the flowers begin to bloom in the winter. During flowering, you can resume feeding the plants on a monthly basis with a nitrogen-rich fertilizer.

Trim them back to encourage new growth. One of the best flowering groundcovers, these are perennials but often grown as annuals. They flower prolifically in the warmer months, producing masses ...