This week's garden column includes expert tips for pruning roses, growing hotter peppers and safely caring for houseplants ...

Baldo Villegas enjoys the many blooms in his Orangevale rose garden, which features more than 2,500 bushes. He developed a pruning method that takes 3 minutes or less per bush. Paul Kitagaki Jr.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Mark de Leeuw / Getty Images Pruning is an essential aspect of caring for roses. Unlike lower-maintenance shrubs such as hydrangea ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... There’s good news for lazy gardeners this year: You don’t have to prune your rose bushes. After all, no one takes care of all those roses that have been ...

End of winter is the best time of year to prune shrubs that flower later in the growing season, i.e. from mid-June and after. The reason is that later-flowering shrubs bloom on “new wood.” This means ...

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I can think of no other shrub that blooms over such a long season or comes in as many colors as roses. When you factor in their wonderful fragrance, it's not surprising that roses are among the most ...

It may be cold outside, but January is prime rose-pruning time in Southern California, so bundle up, don some thick, preferably elbow-length gloves, and get snipping. Not sure how to start? Luckily, ...

Baldo Villegas grows close to 3,500 rose bushes in his Orangevale garden. He’ll host a winter rose care workshop Jan. 13 in Roseville. Paul Kitagaki Jr. pkitagaki@sacbee.com Ask any rose grower; ...

The basics of rose pruning are science based. Once learned, these basics require a fair amount of time and labor. Additionally, a certain degree of artistry is required. The resulting beautiful ...