pruning
pruning takes skillAnnual pruning is essential for the long-term health and vitality of trees and shrubs. Our employees have the education and training to know how, when, and why to prune. It enhances their structure, encourages healthy new growth, prevents disease, and improves the overall aesthetics of your garden.
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why pruning is essential
Promotes Healthy Growth:
Improves Structure:
Enhances Aesthetics:
Encourages More Flowers and Fruit:
Prevents Overcrowding:
Safety and Accessibility:
- Pruning helps remove diseased, dead, or damaged branches, reducing the risk of rot, infection, or pest infestation. It also encourages new growth by removing older, less productive wood.
- Thinning out overcrowded branches allows for better air circulation and sunlight penetration, creating an environment where the plant can thrive.
Improves Structure:
- Proper pruning helps shape a tree or shrub, ensuring a strong, balanced structure. For trees, this is important for preventing weak branch angles, which can lead to breakage. For shrubs, it promotes a fuller, bushier growth habit.
- Pruning allows you to remove branches that are growing inward or crossing each other, which can cause friction, damage, or poor growth.
Enhances Aesthetics:
- Pruning helps maintain a neat, well-kept appearance for trees and shrubs. By removing unwanted growth, you can shape plants to fit a desired form, which enhances the overall look of your garden or landscape.
- Regular pruning can also help with blooming patterns, ensuring flowers or fruits grow where you want them, improving the visual appeal of the plant.
Encourages More Flowers and Fruit:
- Many trees and shrubs benefit from pruning because it stimulates the growth of new shoots, which can lead to more flowers or fruit. Removing dead or excess wood redirects the plant’s energy into healthy growth, leading to a more vibrant flowering or fruiting season.
Prevents Overcrowding:
- Overgrown trees and shrubs can become overcrowded, competing for resources like water, light, and nutrients. By pruning, you can reduce the number of stems or branches, giving the plant more resources for strong, healthy growth.
- Pruning also prevents plants from becoming too large or unruly, reducing the need for frequent, drastic cuts later.
Safety and Accessibility:
- Pruning helps maintain clear pathways and prevents branches from overhanging walkways or growing into power lines. It also helps with visibility if the shrub or tree is near a driveway or road.
- Additionally, removing low-hanging branches or damaged limbs can prevent accidents, especially in high-traffic areas or places where kids or pets might be.
when to prune
By timing pruning appropriately and using the right techniques, we can keep your plants strong, vibrant, and beautiful for years to come. The timing of pruning depends on the type of tree or shrub, but here are some general guidelines:
Late Winter to Early Spring (Dormant Season):
After Flowering:
Summer Pruning:
Fall Pruning:
Late Winter to Early Spring (Dormant Season):
- For most trees and shrubs, late winter or early spring, when the plant is still dormant, is the best time for heavy pruning. This minimizes stress on the plant and reduces the chance of disease.
- It’s easier to see the structure of the plant while it’s bare of leaves, allowing you to make more accurate cuts.
After Flowering:
- For spring-flowering shrubs (like lilacs and azaleas), prune them right after they’ve finished blooming. These plants set their flower buds the year before, so pruning them too late can remove next year’s flowers.
- Summer-flowering shrubs can usually be pruned in late winter or early spring, as they bloom on new growth.
Summer Pruning:
- Light pruning or “maintenance” pruning can be done during the growing season to remove dead or diseased growth or to shape the plant. This is especially important for maintaining the aesthetic of ornamental trees and shrubs.
Fall Pruning:
- Avoid heavy pruning in late fall, as it can encourage new growth that won’t have time to harden off before winter, making the plant more vulnerable to cold damage.
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