Pruning

Top 10 reasons to prune:

1. Clearance from wires, buildings, streets, sidewalks, and pathways
2. Increasing sunlight: deadwooding, thinning, and limbing can lighten up your yard
3. Shaping: cutting back new growth from vines and hedges to keep them from overwhelming your yard
4. Fruit tree reduction to ensure accessible fruit (summer pruning)
5. Restoration: thinning overgrown fruit trees and other previously topped trees to restore their form (winter pruning)
6. Safety: removing broken and hanging branches
7. Aesthetics: thinning dense (miniature japanese maples) and vigorous (purple leaf plums) trees
8. View pruning (also known as windowing)
9. Training young trees for form

We do not:

• thin for windsail. This is less likely to prevent your conifer from blowing over and more likely to cause branch breakage.
• remove more than 25% of living foliage. It is often less stressful for your tree to thin in stages than trying to restore a tree all at once