Flowering trees can undoubtedly put on dazzling summer performances, providing vivid color and attracting butterflies, bees, and hummingbirds into the garden. For an ultimate performance, gardeners need to prune at the right time. Here we reveal five flowering trees to prune in early spring, as you lose flowers if you do it any later.
Knowing when to prune trees means any in your yard remain healthy and put on the best show. That includes not trimming spring-flowering trees this month, but concentrating on summer-flowering ones that require trimming just as the buds break with clean, sharp pruning tools.
