Tree & Shrub Trimming
Enhance Your Landscape by Pruning!
Tree pruning helps your landscape flourish by addressing architectural tree care concerns such as safety, structural integrity, shape and appearance.
Benefits to Trimming:
There are a number of benefits to properly trimming the trees in your yard. Proper pruning improves the health of your trees by removing dead or dying branches. It also protects the branch structure and reduces hazards such as falling limbs or low-hanging branches. On fruit trees, it can improve the size and quantity of the crop.
The Benefits of Pruning Your Trees:
- To ensure that trees have enough light for the fruits to ripen.
- To repair and renew the plants.
- Proper pruning ensures that the fruits which will grow are tasty and ripened properly.
Pruning Shrubs:
Reasons for Pruning:
- Maintaining plant health (remove dead, dying, and diseased branches).
- Control size for visability and safety.
- Improve quality of flowers, fruit, foilage, or stems.
- Renovate or rejuvenate old plants.
- Train young plants.
Avoid Shearing shrubs:
- Labor intensive, requires repeat shearing
- Looks unnatural
- Reduces flowers
- Difficult to control plant height
- Stresses the plant
When to Prune:
- Spring flowering shrubs are pruned after bloom.
- Summer and fall flowering shrubs are pruned in early spring.
- Frost damaged plants are pruned once the danger of frost has passes and new growth starts.
Shrub Pruning Summary:
- Don't prune unless necessary.
- Prune at the right time of year.
- Use the natural growth form of the shrubas a guide for natual pruning.
- Don't shear unless required for formal hedges.
