Pruning

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Pruning

• Removal of plant parts for a reason.

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Pruning Styles

• Hedges-define garden space
• Borders-separate flower beds from lawn
• Shrubs-create mass and space fillers
• Vines-climbing
• Espalier-two dimensional effects
• Topiaries-animal/geometric shapes
• Trees-strongest architectural line

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Pruning Styles
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Pruning Styles
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Topiary
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Espalier
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Espalier
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Pruning Methods

• Heading Back-cutting back all terminal shoots to
  create a dense compact effect.
• Thinning out-removing whole branches to create an
  open effect
• Pinching-using fingers to pluck off plant tissue.

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Pruning

• Direct growth
• Control flowering
• Increase production
• Improve health of plant
• Allows light penetration and air circulation
• Create special effects

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Pruning Tools

• Hand
• Shears-bypass or anvil
• Loppers
• Saw
• Knife

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Loppers
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Pruning Saw
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Knives
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Pruning Flowering Plants

• Must know age of tissue that bears flowers/fruit.
• Current growth
• One year old
• Two year old

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Pruning Cuts
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Large Branch Removal
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Scaffold Branch Symmetry
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Pruning Shrubs
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Pruning Shrubs
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Shrubs-Thinning
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Shrubs-Thinning
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Proper Cuts
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Evergreens-New growth hides cuts
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Prune candles on Pines
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Pruning Pines/Conifers
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Pinching
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Pruning Hedges
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Proper Hedge Pruning
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Hedges
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Pollarding
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Order of Cuts

• Dead and/or decaying branches
• Smaller branches
• Inward crossing branches
• Competing branches
• Larger Branches is necessary (use 3-saw cut)

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