Pinching back annuals promotes fuller plants and more blooms by encouraging branching. Start pinching when plants are young and around 6 inches tall to allow time for recovery. Avoid pinching ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Some of my taller flowers last summer grew too tall and flopped over. Can I pinch these back next year to control height without ...

Sacrificing some color now can help you maintain a fuller shape rather than settling for sparse, floppy flowers. We asked expert gardeners which annuals benefit most from this simple pruning technique ...

Dear Master Gardener: I am interested in growing hot peppers so this year I purchased vegetable grow bags with handles, planted various types of hot peppers and placed the grow bags on my parent’s ...

Taller growing perennials are nice additions to larger landscape beds and borders until they flop over. This detracts from the plants’ beauty and the garden’s appearance. And flopping plants fall onto ...

Annual flowers add almost instant color and greenery to our gardens. However, many annuals can become spindly and produce fewer blooms than expected unless they are pinched back. It may seem ...

Some of my taller flowers last summer grew too tall and flopped over. Can I pinch these back next year to control height without losing flowers? Most types of annual and perennial flowers can be ...