You probably aren’t watering or pruning the 75-foot oak or maple in the front yard, but mature trees aren’t maintenance free.
Each method of cutting plants serves a specific purpose.
Clearing up some misconceptions and providing clear guidance for several common landscape shrubs.
Those flexible twigs from routine pruning might seem like yard waste, but with a little shaping, they can become easy supports for your plants.
One of the 104-year-old Dutch elm trees in Friday Harbor’s Memorial Park will undergo substantial pruning due to advanced rot within a major branch. The second tree will receive more moderate pruning.