KEEP YOUR PLANTS IN SHAPE...CLIP, NIP & TRIM

This is the time of year to prune your beloved plants. Why? To keep plants healthy and growing optimally.

Health

Just as with humans, healthy plants have reduced chance of disease and infection. A wound, even for the purpose of pruning, causes stress in a tree and therefore ensure that you follow best practice to enable speedy recovery.

Pruning is also a technique used to remedy structurally unsound growth that may be detrimental.

Form

A healthy tree often has a single upright leader, a balanced form with evenly distributed branches and requires very little pruning.

The practice of pruning

Pruning is a much misunderstood practice and it is important to get the technique just right, so I have included the best pruning tips from the book "The Royal Horticultural Society"

Today's information will contain information on:

• Pruning for health

• Pruning for productivity

• Pruning for Flowering

• Pruning for ornamentation

Be sure to follow the next few days with pruning techniques!