Face it, it happens at least once in our gardening lives: The plant we thought would be perfect here really would look better there. So, if this is your dilemma, there is a tried-and-true method for ...

We re-potted a house plant that was constantly wilting and that seems to help. Is it possible that the plant is too large and needs a “haircut”? Answer: Potted plants benefit from root pruning as well ...

“Root pruning” sounds like such a brutal way to treat a plant. Yet it’s a periodic necessity once any potted plant has grown as large as you want it to. Potted plants – like other plants – grow, and ...

Tree roots had become an issue at The Peninsula Club. They were growing into playing surfaces and causing turf decline because tree roots outcompete turf roots for water and nutrients. Additionally, ...

Hydroponically-grown lettuce seedlings with 13 to 18 primary lateral roots were root pruned in one of four ways; the root apices were removed from the main root only (1) or from all the root membranes ...

SINCE JANUARY IS almost over, and it starts the year off with that extra 31st day, how about I sneak in one more “extra” article about pruning? I do this in response to a client who was asking about ...

Following combined shoot-and root-pruning treatments the growth of Citrus sinensis (L.) Osbeck seedlings was analysed into responses to post-pruning size and to the part pruned. The treatments were ...