Prune mock oranges, lilacs and other spring-flowering shrubs as soon as they are past their bloom.

Unusual spring-flowering shrubs to give height and colour to your borders.

Hungering for more flowers, I moved on to the woody branches of spring-flowering shrubs, tricking them too.

And don't forget that spring-flowering shrubs like lilacs are, right this minute, building next year's blossoms.

Most spring-flowering shrubs, lilacs included, form flower buds the previous year.

Finish pruning forsythia, kerria and other spring-flowering shrubs by cutting out one third of the older canes to ground level.

Most other spring-flowering shrubs do not benefit from deadheading.

If spring-flowering shrubs or trees are pruned in spring months, bloom will be cut off.

Especially in need of discipline are huge azaleas, lilacs, forsythias, among other spring-flowering shrubs.

Light pruning after spring-flowering shrubs have bloomed is fine.