Proper pruning enhances the beauty of any landscape tree or shrub and like any other skill, requires knowing what you're doing to achieve success. Improper pruning can ruin or reduce plants landscaping potential. By choosing wrong methods, healthy plant may be weakened or deformed. Pruning, which has several definitions involves removing plant parts to improve the health, landscape effect, or value of the plant. In other words, removing or reducing of certain plant parts that are not longer required, effective or that are of no use to the plants. It is done to supply additional energy for development of flowers, fruits and limbs that remain on the plant, to train, maintain its health or to restrict growth. We can determine the type of pruning necessary to maintain or improve the health, appearance, and safety of trees. These techniques include:
eliminating branches that rub each other,
removing limbs that interfere with wires, building facades, gutters, roofs, chimneys, or windows, or that obstruct streets or sidewalks,
removing dead or weak limbs that pose a hazard or may lead to decay,
removing diseased or insect-infested limbs,
creating better structure to lessen wind resistance and reduce the potential for storm damage,
training young trees,
removing limbs damaged by adverse weather conditions,
removing branches, or thinning, to increase light penetration,
improving the shape or silhouette of the tree.
