'Know your plant' expert shares pruning tips at Art of Gardening meeting

Landscaping expert Todd Bowman shared essential pruning tips for various plants, emphasizing timing and techniques for ...

Your young trees need some pruning now. Here’s how to do it right

Which branches — if any — should you be cutting off your young trees? You can't glue the wrong choices back on!
San Gabriel Valley Tribune

Learning the difference between ‘topping’ and proper pruning of a tree

Q. Many times I have read, “Never top a tree!” I have also read that we should keep fruit trees at 8 feet for easy picking. And the avocado experts recommend keeping avocado trees at 11 feet. Either I ...
Seattle Times

The difference between topping and pruning trees

Q: Many times I have read, “Never top a tree!” I have also read that we should keep fruit trees at 8 feet for easy picking. And some experts recommend keeping avocado trees at 11 feet. Either I don’t ...
Jacksonville Journal-Courier on MSN

Tree topping is never a good option

Tree topping involves indiscriminately cutting back a tree’s canopy with little to no regard for natural structure or proper ...
Southern Living on MSN

Can you prune crepe myrtles in spring—or is it too late?

When you close your eyes and think of a Southern summer garden, the first image may be an ancient live oak with low, sweeping branches, but the second image is puffs of sunset sky-colored crepe myrtle ...
Yahoo

Crape myrtles require very little pruning. Here's when and how to prune them correctly

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. I usually wait until mid-January to write something on this topic but this week I saw my first severe pruning of a crape myrtle ...