Hello World! Welcome Friends! Unlike tree lopping, which can damage your trees as a result of unnecessary stress on the branches, the proper pruning of trees involves a number of techniques that help the tree to protect themselves against disease and grow correctly. When a tree is lopped, large open wounds leave the tree vulnerable to pests and disease, which is detrimental to the tree, often causing them to decay. Fresno tree trimming experts will help to refresh your garden by maintaining the natural life that exists there, and ensure that your trees live a long, healthy life.
1. Reduces the Height and Width of a Tree
If you find that a tree in your garden has become too overbearing, it is a great idea to contact Wavey Tree Care to prune the branches in order to reduce the height and width of the tree. In turn, this can make your garden look bigger and the tree look neater. It is worth doing this as early on as possible, to keep the tree under control.
Crown reduction is the term for reducing the height and spread of the top of the tree. This can make the tree look visually smaller, as well as preventing excess stress on individual branches of the tree. This is most easily done by thinning out the top layers of the tree, while ensuring that you keep its natural shape. When undertaking this, it is important that both sides of the tree are cut equally to avoid unattractive regrowth. Sacramento tree pruning service can help you achieve the perfect shape for your trees.
2. Increases the Tree’s Lifespan
Correctly pruning a tree will not only make your garden look great, but can also improve the lifespan of the tree. Keeping your trees in good health is important because they offer shade, help to sustain wildlife, and provide shelter for birds. A tree that is overgrown will make airflow between the branches difficult, becoming a catalyst for disease.
Dead-wooding is the process of removing dead branches from a tree and can be an extremely good way to prevent disease or pest infestation. This, along with other correct methods of pruning, will help to preserve your tree’s health for a long time.
Pruning trees in the winter months can be damaging because the healing process will take longer, and the tree is left more susceptible to fungi growing on the bark. While many trees should be left alone in winter, there are a few deciduous species that can be pruned in the colder weather, including Maple, Walnut, Birch, and Oak, etc. By taking advantage of this, you can ensure that your garden looks great all year round.
Often, older trees will sprout shoots at their base in an attempt to regenerate. But this inadvertently encourages water and nutrients to divert away from the main trunk, causing the tree to die faster. It is a good idea to cut these shoots to stop them preventing the main tree from thriving.
3. Encourages New Tree Growth
With young trees, it is often worth undertaking formative pruning which can guide their shape and help them to grow successfully. By training trees to grow into a specific form, you can keep control of the tree and regular maintenance is a lot simpler.
Young urban trees have the benefit of less competition for sunlight, unlike their forest counterparts. Though, this can actually cause issues in itself, as the young tree will start to sprout many branches. Too many strong branches will make the tree weaker, so it is important to encourage one branch to take on the leading role. To do this, you will need to preserve the clear central-leading branch that will act as the tree’s guide to grow. It is vital that this branch is not cut as this will become the tree’s lead – pruning this will confuse the tree and could lead to wonky growth with uneven branches. If successful, this tree will shoot straight up and smaller branches will form from the leader. Manipulating the trees in this way can help you create uniform amongst the trees in your garden.
4. Increases Sunlight
The way a tree is pruned can alter the amount of light or privacy in your garden. Trees can be used sneakily to cover unattractive views, or to prevent nosy neighbors from looking over the fence into your garden – while these things can be great, the trees often block sunlight as a result of this.
Pruning some of the canopy, or densely packed layer of the tree, will help to alleviate some of the shade in the garden. By removing a few of the branches in a careful, even manner you will be able to let more light shine through into your garden, which will allow other plants to thrive.
The idea of transparent pruning was introduced by a French gardener called Dominique Cousin, and the general idea is that trees are pruned by thinning out branches carefully to keep the privacy but allow light and air to pass through the branches. Often, gardeners using this method will deliberately cut their trees into delicate shapes in order to make the garden look more elegant.
5. Keeps Trees Looking Neat
Incorrect pruning can lead to your tree looking a mess. Many people think that snipping the ends of branches off will make the tree look smaller and neater while avoiding damage to the tree, though the opposite is true. Pruning stimulates the branch to grow, so cutting the end of a branch off will result in multiple branches growing from this spot – this will lead to a vicious cycle and result in your tree growing far too big. It is therefore recommended that you make a fewer number of large cuts, as opposed to many small trims.
Many people refuse to touch their trees out of fear of ruining them. The easiest way is to start by identifying the skeleton branches that are significant to the form of your tree, and avoid pruning those. Undertaking a few, well-chosen cuts can help to make your tree look great, and your garden even better.
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Toodles,
It’s great that you pointed out how correctly pruning a tree would not only make the garden look great, but it could also improve its lifespan. I was looking at our garden earlier and I just realized that our trees are a bit overgrown. It wouldn’t be good for the health of the trees if we just let it be, so we should definitely get tree pruning services to take care of it.