Pruning is one of the most interesting and difficult
gardening tasks we confront. I have spent years working on this topic, but what
I have learned is to select and plant what will naturally fill an area. Pruning
should be left to dead, diseased or broken limbs. If you have a trees or shrubs that you are pruning multi times a season to keep it in the area desired you
should think about replacing it. Pruning should be done for the health of the
plant, not to keep it from invading a walkway or your window.
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Below are two photos of my Vanhutte Spirea, I only made 3
pruning cuts, really 3 cuts but it shaped the shrub nicely. What was most beneficial
is that while I was working on the plant I found aphids and addressed the
problem. Note that there is not a huge difference but it surely looks better.
Happy Gardening
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