A Native Shrub Beloved for Its Spring Flowers and Exfoliating Bark Ninebark is a deciduous spring-flowering shrub widely used in landscaping. It gets its name from its unique exfoliating bark, which ...

Ninebark, so-named for its distinctive peeling bark, is a shrub that often needs regular, light pruning to appear at its best. It can look stylish when unpruned, but there is a risk of it getting ...

As summer approaches, it’s time to finish pruning trees and shrubs that flowered in spring. “If you wait too long after they bloom, you’ll diminish next year’s flower display,” said Sharon Yiesla, ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Ninebark is a native shrub that truly ticks every box: vivid foliage, lush blooms, and even visually "a-peeling" bark in winter.