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Homes & Gardens
Drew Swainston

Stop – Don’t Prune Everything Yet. Here’s What Actually Needs Cutting Back in March, and What to Avoid

Shrubs around a bench in a botanic garden.

March is a time with big temperature swings across the US, and any pruning plans need to reflect your location and the current weather. Here, we look at some plants to prune in March. We also reveal what to avoid trimming, and the conditions under which you should never take the pruning tools out this month.

Weather-wise, March is late winter for northern gardeners and early spring in the south. There are big temperature swings across the US, including severe weather conditions in the northeast and mid-Atlantic. Elsewhere, the weather remains more typical, with colder weather in northern areas and milder temperatures in southern regions.

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