We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Do you have a small, green bush in your yard that produces red, black, yellow-ish, or pink berries? Then that may be a currant bush, known by ...

I have grown, maintained, and harvested blackcurrant, redcurrant, and whitecurrant bushes in walled kitchen gardens and on my home plots for many years. I always found them simple to grow, easy to ...

A red currant espalier in New Paltz, N.Y. Red currant plants are especially easy to train and prune as decorative (and edible) espaliers. (Lee Reich) Espalier is a way of training and pruning plants ...

Older man pruning tall shrubs in snowy yard. - Svetlana-cherruty/Getty Images Even though perennial plants are still at rest during February's waning days of winter, you still have work to do if you ...

We recall a story told long ago about a young gardener who, early one morning, was pruning his trees and shrubs. He had a favorite currant bush, which had begun to go to wood; he feared that it would ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Pruning plants while they are dormant reduces stress and encourages healthy growth. (Getty Images) Along with mowing the lawn at ...