For a bit of early color and fragrance inside your home or office, branches from many common flowering trees and shrubs can be forced to blossom indoors, even when the weather outside is cold and ...

Pruning your shrubs is perhaps the least exciting part of gardening (though it may still beat weeding). But when it's done at the right time and with the proper technique, it can produce great results ...

You’re getting impatient for spring to arrive. You’ve had enough of winter. Mother Nature, however, is on her own schedule. It varies from year to year and she won’t tell you if she decides to change ...

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This is a great time of year for pruning — my favorite gardening task — and for bringing branches inside to flower in your home. Branches with interesting foliage and flowering branches can both be ...

I have been pruning in my garden and wonder if I can bring in some branches and get them to flower. If so, how should I proceed? Spring-flowering trees and shrubs such as lilacs and crabapples form ...

Many gardeners are busy pruning shrubs to remove winter damage, control the size, or provide a bit of shaping before the season is well under way. Save some of the branches or cut a few from spring ...

Submitted photo A tall vase of blooming branches like this one can chase away the winter “blahs.” We can all be a bit tired of winter by this time of year. So, if you’re eager for spring, bring it ...

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CHICOPEE, Mass (Mass Appeal) — Bringing in the Spring by forcing flowering branches to bloom indoors. Shari Petrucci from the Western Mass Master Gardener Association shares tips on how.Bring in ...