Thinning & Pruning
This is often an overlooked topic. Think about it, how often have you thought about how your pruning and trimming techniques affect the plant? This can either make a plant thrive, or decline, nevertheless, we feel it does deserve an explanation. Pruning is a necessity in order to maintain a vigorously healthy tree or shrub. We prune for several reasons. Some of which may include, removing undesired growth such as weak, or over crowded limbs, dead, diseased or even broken branches. Pruning can also be a useful tool in stimulating flowering and fruiting of the plant. One thing to think about is why are you pruning the tree? Proper pruning can restore a more natural growth habit. Then there are other reasons such, to prevent damage to ones home and property, and just to overall maintain and reduce the size of the plant. The first thing to know in pruning a tree is, there are 3 techniques in basic pruning. Pinching, being the first is done by hand, and usually on smaller plants to con...