When temperatures finally drop, working in the garden is so much more pleasant. Fall is the perfect time to deadhead annuals to get a few more blooms, plant cool-season flowers and herbs like pansies and sage, or add leaves to your compost pile. But there is one gardening chore that shouldn't always be done in the fall—pruning.

Forsythia

One of the first signs that spring is here is the bright yellow flowers on a forsythia shrub. Prune it in the fall, and you'll have no blooms next spring since the flowers appear on old wood. To keep the fast-growing shrub and its sometimes wild growth under control, prune the shrub back right after the blooms fade.

Azaleas and Rhododendrons

Whether your garden looks like the Master's golf course filled with azaleas or you treasure the blooms of

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