During these frigid winter temperatures, it’s common to see tree care professionals doing extensive pruning. For most trees, this is the best time to prune as they are in dormancy.

“Stress from summer over-pruning can result in waterspouts,” Vaughan says, referring to the shoots that arise from the base ...

Trimming when young focuses on shaping the tree and giving it a strong skeleton, followed by small-scale pruning every few years to keep it in good shape and productive.

Not all nurseries are pruning young trees for lifetime strength with a dominant leader and well spaced branches that are small in diameter relative to the main stem, he said. He learned that in ...

Over the years, we have been conditioned to believe pruning, while there are leaves on trees, is a capital offense. Consequently, it has probably never crossed the minds of most home orchardists to ...

MacCubbin gives Florida gardening advice about care of gardenias, mango trees, desert roses, crape myrtles and tomatoes along ...

What to prune: Young oak trees of five to ten years need pruning to help shape the tree. Most mature oak trees need very little pruning. Look for and remove branches that are brushing each other ...

This method relies on low pruning, which starts when you plant a young sapling. Instead of encouraging upward growth, you cut off the leader at knee height. This sounds like a terrible idea but as ...

Below is Polozola’s advice on pruning and training the shape of some common fruit trees as well as pecans, which we usually think of as nuts but actually are drupes, a type of fruit. Peach ...

Euclid’s forestry program is continuing full steam ahead with an announcement that contractors with the Davey Resource Group started conducting “young tree training” Nov. 19 in all wards of ...

Regularly trimming away damaged and unsightly branches is key to maintaining a healthy fruit tree with an aesthetically pleasing shape. It also triggers a hormonal response that promotes healing ...