Hi a garden writer George Weigel here and this week would be a really good
time to talk pruning because we're late into the spring and early summer which
is the perfect time to prune just about 2/3 to 3/4 of the landscape plan
what gets pruned and how depends on what you're trying to do what look you're
trying to achieve and also the plant itself for evergreens for example they
could have a you Bush here a lot of people have those in their yard that's
something you might want to shear otherwise you'll be using hand pruners
if you're trying to do more natural-looking pruning more open
pruning but for formal stuff dense stuff boxes balls that kind thing sheering if
you're going to share you're going to use a tool like this it's power shears I
like to use electric some people use battery-powered ones or even gas powered
ones but for the more open pruning you'd use different tools for example for
little branches use something like this just hand pruners and then for bigger
branches you'd use a couple of these tools which would be loppers or tree
saws
let's take a look at the shearing first now that would be mostly evergreens or
plants you're trying to make dents that would be things like hedges or
foundation you bushes are by vytas Hollies boxwoods those type of plants
they can be sheared and a couple key things to keep in mind though one thing
is this is a good time of year for most things because the growth has already
come on and a bush like this you can see all the fresh green grows and it's just
about done with all the new growth for the season but one thing is you don't
want to go in too far they can see the younger of light-green growth that's
perfectly fine to trim almost all that off but if you're looking a little bit
farther you'll see last year's growth which is darker green not a big problem
to take that off either most of most of it but if you keep going you'll see the
stems are bare inside no needles at all some plants we even push new growth from
that but for some plants if you share too far in to where the bare stems are
you'll kill that section of the plants a good rule of thumb is don't go back into
where it's fair I'll show you how to do it here I'm going to trim a little bit
off with my head shirts but notice I got gloves on and I got glasses on and if
you're using power tools make a lot of noise when you do plug
let's take a look here so I'm just gonna lightly share this you bush now for
flowering shrubs things that you really want to keep looking natural you just
need to control the size a little bit and even for some evergreens too if you
don't like that dense formal look you would use hand pruners
where you snip branch by branch you're taking off one by one selectively
ideally at joints where branches come outside shoots come out that'd be a good
spot this now one thing to remember though would be this time of year late
spring early summer you would prune the shrubs that have already bloomed that be
forsythia lilac why Jeolla is alias those kind of
plants because if you try to snip things that haven't yet bloomed that are gone
to bloom in July or August you're going to cut the flower buds off now so things
that are done blooming is what you would be trimming right now so you just keep
snipping is going around the bush snipping off the overly long things
ideally at a place where the side sheets are coming out clip right above that and
just snip and snip and snip it takes a lot longer than shearing and don't be
afraid to step back and see how it's looking as you go along because once you
take the branches off to you and put them back on but in the end you'll have
a nicely sized controlled shrub that'll still look natural one last thing
get the pruning done by the end of the summer because fall is the worst time to
prune just about anything so get it all done by I'd say maybe September Labor
Day is a good cutoff get your pruning done and you'll be all set for winter
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