GTOTM (Garden Tip Of The Month) - pruning flowering bushes

Ever prune your over grown flowering bushes in the fall and then next spring you have no blooms (or very few)? Here is a rule of thumb - if you have bushes like Lilac or Forsythia that bloom early in the spring - the appropriate time to purne them is in the spring right after they are through blooming. If you prune them in the fall you cut off the new growth (from the current year) that produces the blooms the following spring.