The red-leaf grasses are tropical, so wait to prune them. When raking leaves, remember to use them as mulch in flower and shrub beds or put them in your compost pile. Pine needles are great to use ...

Summer-blooming shrubs, on the other hand, will form their flower buds this spring once new growth starts so you’re safe to prune what you need to. Go ahead and prune your spring-flowering ...

“You can reduce the size of most shrubs by selectively pruning their branches, and the winter dormant season is a good time to do it,” said Spencer Campbell, Plant Clinic manager at The Morton ...

Mid- to late-winter provides an excellent opportunity to prune a variety of plants in the landscape. Plants that can be pruned now include most hedges, shrubs and shade trees, and summer-flowering ...

Water your leucothoe regularly until it's established. These shrubs are tough, low-maintenance plants that don't have a complicated care regime. As long as they are planted in the right place, they ...

Green-fingered experts at the Royal Horticultural Society (RHS) give us the heads-up: "Most pruning is in late winter or early spring. However, climbing hydrangeas are pruned after flowering in ...

"It's like photographing a beach and resolving individual grains of sand." Astronomers announced last week that they had completed a decade-long, meticulous effort to assemble a full portrait of ...

Galactic neighbor: NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has captured a massive panoramic view of the neighboring Andromeda galaxy (Messier 31), which is situated just over 2.5 million light-years away ...

The Andromeda galaxy is our closest galactic neighbour, barring dwarf galaxies that are gravitationally bound to the Milky Way. When conditions are right, we can see it with the naked eye, though it ...

His remark holds true now, nearly half a decade later. At 2.5 million light-years away, the Andromeda Galaxy—officially called Messier 31—is the farthest object visible to the naked eye.

This is the largest photomosaic ever assembled from Hubble Space Telescope observations. It is a panoramic view of the neighboring Andromeda galaxy, located 2.5 million light-years away. It took over ...