February Is a Peak Pruning Time — If You Don’t Go Rogue With the Shears
These 7 plants will reward you with absurdly good displays if you cut them back now (and not everything else you feel like attacking) February is that strange, liminal month. Winter is technically still here, but it’s losing confidence. Snow is melting into slush, the sun suddenly feels like it remembers your name, and gardeners everywhere are pacing around their yards clutching pruners like they’ve been cooped up too long. This is the danger zone. Because February really is one of the best pruning windows of the entire year — if you know what you’re doing . And it’s also the month when well-meaning gardeners accidentally delete spring flowers like they’re clearing old photos from their phone at 2 a.m. Late winter pruning is powerful. It’s decisive. It sets the tone for the entire growing season. Do it right, and your garden comes roaring back with bigger blooms, stronger growth, and plants that look like they actually belong there. Do it wrong, and you’ll be staring at a whole l...