Sunday, May 19, 2013

Pruning


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.
Before 
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 

After 




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