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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
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