There are a few general guidelines on what types of trees are best planted in spring, according to Sharon Yiesla, a ...

Spring has sprung - learn more how about how trees use hormones to begin to sprout leaves again in warmer months ...

On pines, this would normally be late spring or early summer, when “candles” of new growth have emerged from terminal buds. However, spruce and fir trees originate new growth from lateral buds ...

Exceptions include spring-flowering shrubs and trees — like Japanese magnolias, azaleas and bigleaf hydrangeas — that set flower buds the previous year. If you cut these plants back now ...