One of the great things about junipers—along with the fact they’re usually ignored by deer—is how self-sufficient they are. Junipers practically set the gold standard for “plant ‘em and forget ‘em” ...

Juniper is a beautiful plant that you can find virtually anywhere once you know what to look for. I knew nothing about Juniper just a few years ago, but once I realized that several juniper bushes ...

Q: I've got a bed of spreading junipers that are getting too big and spilling out into the lawn. How can I prune and when? A: End of winter is the best time to prune junipers, although they also can ...

I have a pom-pom juniper. For years, I have been trimming off the new growth each spring before they get too long. This year I let them go, and the juniper looks like it stuck a branch into a light ...

Junipers are not as forgiving as some plants when it comes to pruning. If done wrong, one will end up with an ugly skeleton of a shrub with bald spots and bare branches. On the bright side, junipers ...

I used to tell novice pruners to practice on junipers, because I saw them as basically indestructible. That was before I saw the aftermath of my neighbor's practice session. Now I recommend that ...

Question: I have an old juniper groundcover that is about 4 feet tall and at least 12 feet wide. I’ve seen these limbed up into a sort of low-growing bonsai so you can see the branches. I’d like to do ...

Question: We have some "Sea Green" junipers that had grown too large for the spot I planted them in about 10 years ago. I decided to cut them back from their six foot height to about a two foot height ...

Fruit trees should be pruned two times per year. Summer pruning (June until mid-August) should never exceed removal of more than about a tenth of the canopy. The object is to remove shoots crowding ...