If you have a beautiful hibiscus bush in your yard, it makes sense that you want to give it some TLC in order for it to thrive year after year. Pruning is an important part of plant care and allows ...

Pruning is essential to routine hibiscus care—it ensures that the plant produces the large, stunning flowers that make hibiscus one of the most beautiful flowering shrubs you can grow. More than 200 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Blooming hibiscus shaped as a tree in a garden - Ioanna_alexa/Getty Images Most people know hibiscus as a shrub bursting with ...

Gardening columnist Don Kinzler answers questions about treating a maple tree that's shedding leaves, pruning a hibiscus before bringing it indoors, and how to get an African violet to bloom again. A ...

Gardeners cut back perennials in the fall to tidy up their yards, prevent problems with overwintering diseases and pests, and make it easy for new growth to emerge in the spring. But some plants ...

Q. Please tell me when to cut my hibiscus back. Some are 7 feet tall and still blooming on top. Tell me how low to cut them back. -- E.N., Houston A. I assume your plants are in beds. Since it's so ...

Recent freezes have resulted in many people questioning whether to prune or not to prune cold-damaged plants. The short answer is — wait. We’ve just had a run of freezing temperatures, but winter’s ...

After our colder winter months, it’s time to start thinking about pruning the shrubs in the yard and remove any cold damage.

Hibiscus plants are blooming profusely all over Marco Island right now. This plant also seemed to love the cold weather. Perhaps it is because the severe cold helps control some of the insects that ...

Pruning hibiscus boosts branching, airflow, and blooms, though it delays flowers slightly. Tropical hibiscus is cut back by one-third in spring; hardy types just need dead stems removed. To shape as a ...