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Crabapple Pruning in 4 Easy Steps: Overgrown Mess No More (Part 1 of 3)
This flowering crabapple was left alone for 3 years with no pruning. Regular crabapple pruning is required to have a great looking tree. When pruning an overgrown tree like this after years of...
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Crabapple Pruning in 4 Easy Steps: Overgrown Mess No More (Part 2 of 3)
Here is how our overgrown tree looked after step 1 of our crabapple pruning was completed. See Crabapple Pruning in 4 Easy Steps: Overgrown Mess No More (Part 1 of 3) for details. Now, we will...
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Crabapple Pruning in 4 Easy Steps: Overgrown Mess No More (Part 3 of 3)
Here is how our overgrown tree looked after steps 1, 2 and 3 of our crabapple pruning were completed. See Crabapple Pruning in 4 Easy Steps: Overgrown Mess No More (Part 1 of 3) and Crabapple Pruning...
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Rose care questions
I received the following question related to roses from my Ask Me a Question page: “Hi, Jim. I have two questions related to roses. I have two varieties of roses in my flower bed, although I am not...
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Spring Mugo pine care
Alright, I lied. Last time I said I would give you more smaller shade trees. That will have to wait a week. Instead of continuing with my theme from my last post, I am going to talk about spring Mugo...
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Aesthetic pruning goals for your garden sanctuary
Two aesthetic pruning goals come to mind when I am asked the following question: “How do you know what branch to cut?” That is the most frequent question I am asked when I am pruning anything at the...
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Three aesthetic pruning cuts
Last post I discussed two goals of aesthetic pruning that I consider when pruning. Those being to make the tree smaller and also appear older. The first goal is probably not that surprising. Pruning...
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Pruning to reduce regrowth
I recently received this question from Wendy in Wisconsin, I have a 15 yr. old sargent crab apple, multi-trunked, planted 6 ft. from the house, under a large window 8 ft. from the ground. The hope was...
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Mark recently sent me the following question regarding pruning rhododendrons via my Ask me a question page: “I have a number of large leaf Rhododendrons in my garden (Zone 5). “How do you prune them...
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How to prune cane type shrubs simply
By Jim When you look at your landscape is it nicely arranged with all the plants in proportion? Or do you see a few plants that have grown out of hand and have started their quest for world domination...
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