The thinness of your schefflera is probably because of the low light conditions it's living in. Though scheffleras can tolerate lower light levels, they do have limits and they can get thin and leggy ...

Q: About 10 years ago, someone gave me a Norfolk Island Pine tree. It's over five feet tall now and is spreading quite energetically into our front room. Is it possible to cut back the branches ...

If you have a pine shrub or tree in your yard, spring is the time to control its growth. Keeping a pine in check is not a simple matter of pruning branches. “Pines aren’t like other evergreens,” said ...

I have a 5-foot Austrian pine in my front yard. When we first moved in, a landscape consultant told us we could trim the top with shears to stimulate growth, so I did that. It stimulated branching of ...