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| Pruning |
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| A little well-timed pruning goes a long way toward improving your landscape and protecting your investment. There are many good reasons to prune: |
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Properly pruned shrubs and trees look more attractive, and grow healthier and more vigorously. |
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When you prune plants to let in more air and light, surrounding plants and turf grass often benefit. |
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Pruning maintains or reduces the size of the plant and removes dead, diseased, and/or broken branches. |
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Pruning returns plants to their more natural growth patterns and makes them stronger by removing suckers, water sprouts, or other weak limbs and branches. |
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Left unchecked, trees and shrubs can outgrow their locations, becoming unsightly. |
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Pruning removes branches and limbs that pose a hazard to people, homes, or power lines. |
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| When pruning your trees and shrubs, timing in everything. |
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Spring is prime time for pruning many types of plants. |
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For maximum flowering, cut back summer-flowering plants during winter or early spring, before new growth appears. |
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Cut back spring-flowering plants immediately after flowering. You could accidentally remove next year's flower buds if you prune at other times. |
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In late spring, prune back new growth in conifer plants (such as pine, fir, and spruce trees). Avoid cutting beyond new foliage, because new growth may not develop on the older wood. |
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You can prune evergreen plants whenever the wood is not frozen. |
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Wait to prune trees such as maple, birch, dogwood, elm, and walnut until summer or fall. While it won't hurt them, these plants produce sap or “bleed” if pruned during the spring. |
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