Key Points Spring is the best time to prune butterfly bushes. Pruning in the late fall or winter leaves them susceptible to frost damage. Wait until the spring to do a hard prune (pruning it back ...

Find out when to prune a butterfly bush and how to make the right cuts to enjoy more flowers on this fast-growing shrub.

Pruning promotes lusher growth and more flowers on shrubs when done at the right time of year. This is the best time to cut ...

Most bushes that flower in the summer do so on new growth. That means you can prune anything you like in the spring, since the new growth hasn’t started yet. Butterfly bush and rose of sharon ...

As summer approaches, it’s time to finish pruning trees and shrubs that flowered in spring. “If you wait too long after they bloom, you’ll diminish next year’s flower displa… ...

Winter is no time to be cutting back marginally hardy plants such as phormiums, fuchsia or escallonia, and you don't want to be pruning spring-blooming shrubs such as forsythia, lilac ...

So as a general rule, prune these and other spring bloomers in the week or so after they finish blooming. Lilacs are another popular spring flower.

Examples of shrubs that can be pruned in early spring include roses, hydrangeas, summer-blooming clematis, Buddleja (butterfly bush), hardy fuchsia, spirea, red twig dogwood forsythia, and a host ...

The show is over: Spring-blooming shrubs and vines have strutted their stuff. With blossoms past, they are melding into other landscape greenery. Don't turn your back on these plants, though ...