Prune to promote the health of the plants
1. Remove the dying and dead branches injured by animals, storms, serious insect infestation, disease, or other unpleasant mechanical damages.
2. Remove branches that stroke each other.
3. Remove branch stumps.
Don’t top trees. Remove the large branches in order to avoid the occurrence of health problems. And also, this prevents destroying the natural shape of the plant and it promotes development and suckering of feeble branch structures.
Prune to preserve your plants; envisioned purposes in a landscape like:
1. Promotes development of fruits and flowers.
2. Maintain a condensed hedge.
3. Maintain the desired form of plants or exceptional garden forms.
Prune to promote the appearance of the plants
How the landscape appears is important to the usefulness of the plants. The natural form of the plants is best for most landscapes. Avoid cutting off shrubs into taut geometrical figures than can unfavorably affect flowering unless it necessitates to be trained or confined for a certain purpose. When you prune plants properly, it is hard to see that they were already pruned. Prune to:
1. Keep the shrubby evergreen condensed and well-balanced.
2. Control the shape and size of the plants.
3. Remove undesirable waterspouts, suckers, branches, and unwanted fruiting structures that diminish the appearance of the plants.
Prune to protect your property and everyone around you
1. Take away dead branches.
2. Take down hazardous trees.
3. Prune out narrow-angled or weak tree branches that project towards your home, sidewalk, parking lot.
4. Remove branches that obstruct traffic signals, overhead wires, and street lights. Keep in mind that you should not try to prune near utility and electrical wires. Hire professionals to handle these things.
5. Prune branches that muddles with the vision at intersections.
6. For safety purposes, prune tree branches or shrubs that blocks the entrance to your home.
The most common types of tree pruning are:
1. Crown raising – remove lower branches on the mature or developing trees to give more clearance above streets, sidewalks, lawns, and so forth.
2. Crown thinning – remove the branches on undeveloped trees selectively. This improves their health and form by allowing light to penetrate even more for the trees and efficient air movement.
3. Crown cleaning – it is the discriminatory removal of dying, diseased, and dead woods from the crown.
4. Crown reduction – remove large branches seen at the top of the tree in order to decrease its height.