I had a column about pruning spring-blooming plants. Always prune them after they finish blooming. This is because they set ...

The best time to prune most fruit trees is in late winter or early spring, says Boersma, while the tree is still dormant, but ...

Tiny leaf buds are forming on the apple and dogwood trees in Chris Kuhlow’s Port Jefferson Station backyard, and leaves are appearing on his black raspberry bushes and lilacs. For 15 years ...

If you can’t wait for trees and shrubs such as redbud to bloom, cut some branches and force them indoors for a head start on springtime. Of course, they can only bloom if they have flower buds.

The Army's 250th military parade is underway. Watch Live by Elliot Henney (ABC7) On Thursday, the Yoshino cherry trees on D.C.'s Tidal Basin reached green bud, the first of six bloom stages ...

When the sap rises in the spring from the tree’s roots to its branches, buds swell, and scales fall off. The leaves, stem, and flowers unfurl from the bud, releasing pollen.

The Buds That Bridge Winter and Spring. April 1, 2006. ... into the foliage of a towering American holly at Brookside Gardens in Wheaton and plucked a yellowing leaf from the tree.

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- Today's spring day with temperatures in the 60's seemed to be a cue for not just the tree buds and flowers to come out, but it also brought lots of people outdoors.