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Pruning Hydrangeas  
If you don't read any further than this sentence - the best advice for pruning hydrangeas is - "DON'T". However, pruning can be done quite successfully if a few things are kept in mind.

Pruning Ornamental Plants

Basic Pruning Techniques 
From the Ames garden tool site has several very useful pages on basic pruning for plants, complete with line drawing illustrations to show you exactly what they're talking about. Also they have pruning charts

Pruning Landscape Plants  
from Mississippe State Extension Service
From Garden Gate Magazine Shear Delights Here's a riddle: When is a shrub not a shrub? When you've pruned it into a tree. When you consider the blurry distinction between trees and shrubs, you see the wisdom behind this pruning style.

Espalier
 
An espaliered plant is one that has been trained to grow in one plane. In the 17th Century, 'espalier' originally referred to the frame or trellis on which the plant was trained. Today, espalier refers to both the two-dimensional tree or shrub or the horticultural technique of actually training the plant. Also includes 20 favorite plants for espalier.
Forcing Flowering Branches  
Use the pruned branches of fruit trees for beautiful indoor blooms, from P. Allen Smith.
Mark Cullen's Rules of Thumb for Pruning Shrubs
Pruning Fruit Trees  
A guide from the Nebraska Cooperative Extension site (file is in PDF format).
Basic Principles of Pruning Woody Plants  
from the University of Georgai College.Shoot Growth and Apical Dominance, General Responses to Pruning, Types of Pruning Cuts, Healing Response to Pruning, and Time for Pruning.
A Guide to Successful Pruning  
A shrub pruning calendar for USDA Zones  
8a to 5b from the Virginia Cooperative Extension.
Prunning Fruit Trees  
This page is designed to show pictures of various kinds and cultivars of fruits and to show how to prune and train plants in various ways.
How to Prune Trees - A guide by USDA Forest Service

Guidelines for Correct Pruning, by Dr. Alex Shigo
Pruning Guidebook of the British Columbia Forest Service
Pruning Ornamental Shrubs from University of Missouri-Columbia
Fiskars Pruning Tips by the makers of Fiskars prunners.
Bartlett's Pruning...the art of the cut
Lawn and Garden: Pruning Trees & Shrubs
ISA Pruning Trees
ISA Pruning Young Trees

 
 

 


 


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