Pruning

Why Should You Prune a Tree?

If you’ve never pruned your trees, we hear it all the time, don’t worry you’re not alone. Many never do because it is falsely believed that letting a tree, shrub or even ground-cover grow in its natural form is best.

Pruning your trees actually extends their lives by keeping them from damage that could cause an early demise, growing where you don’t want it or leaving you with a big, empty spot on your property once its got out of hand. Here are some other reasons pruning your trees is something you should do each year.

Pruned Trees = Healthy Trees

• Removing damaged or diseased branches to prevent insects or disease from going deeper into your healthy tree is something you should take quite seriously
• Thinning out the density of the tree allows more air and sunlight to penetrate through giving way to a healthier tree and other plants/lawns that maybe beneath.
• Simply eliminating crossing branches prevents tree-on-tree damage + it growing in all the wrong areas that will make them overgrown and harder to deal with in the long run
• If your tree is young and you have two codominant leaders in the structure, prune down to one in the earlier years lop off co-tree leaders leaving two large trunks make for a future split but having one primary trunk helps a tree last for many years.