Pruning is the removal of living plant tissue to stimulate growth, remove dead tissue, or reshape a shrub or tree. There are several types of pruning cuts including heading cuts, thinning cuts, and pollarding. When to prune depends on the type of plant, with spring flowering plants pruned after blooming and summer flowering plants pruned during dormancy. The proper tools, such as pruning shears, lopping shears, and hand saws, should be used depending on the size of branches being cut.

1. Pruning Tree: Crape Myrtle Term: Pruning

2. Pruning The removal of living plant tissue to stimulate growth, remove dead tissue, or reshape a shrub or tree.

3. Tutorial Go to this website Go thru the tutorial

4. 5 Harmful Cuts Topping Tipping Bark ripping Flesh Cutting Stub setting

5. Pruning Removes Apical Dominance Makes plants bushier

6. Types of pruning cuts Heading: Cut end of stem off Thinning: Remove back to trunk or large stem

7. Heading cuts Cut just above a bud Get new growth at the tips Crape Myrtles

8. Other techniques Pollarding Topping

9. Espalier Pruning trees to make them 2 dimensional

10. Thinning cuts Cut whole branches to the stem or trunk Get more vigorous growth on the remaining branches Important on fruit trees

11. Spacing

12. What to remove? This will be on the quiz!

13. Heading Cut: Where to cut

14. Thinning Cut: Where to cut?

15. How to cut large branches

16. Tools A good pair of pruning shears is probably one of the most important tools. Cuts up to 3/4 inches in diameter may be made with them

17. Tools Lopping shears are similar to pruning shears, but their long handles provide greater leverage needed to cut branches up to 11/2 inches in diameter

18. Hedge Shears Hedge shears are meant only for pruning hedges, nothing else. They usually cut succulent or small stems best. Cut multiple small stems with each stroke.

19. Hand Saws Hand saws are very important for cutting branches over 1 inch in diameter. Many types of hand saws are available. Special tri-cut or razor tooth pruning saws cut through larger branches — up to 4 inches in diameter — with ease

20. Pole Saws Pole saws allow for extended reach with a long handle, but they must be used carefully as it’s difficult to achieve clean cuts with them

21. When to prune Spring flowering shrubs & trees – right after blooming Flower on last years growth Summer flowering shrubs & trees – in dormant season Decrease opportunity for disease When in doubt prune when dormant

22. What to remove? This will be on the quiz!

23. Draw where to prune Put in your notebook

24. Summer Flowers Multiple Branches Full Sun Crape Myrtle

25. Bradford Pear Full Sun Spring Flowers Pyramidal shape

26. Dogwood Sun or Shade Spring Flowers Pink or white

27. Redbud Tree Spring Flowering Sun or shade

28. Azalea Spring Flowering Shrub Part shade

29. Hydrangea Spring Flowering Shrub Part shade

30. Knock-out Rose Summer flowers Shrub Full Sun

31. Forsythia Spring Flowering Shrub Full sun

32. Winged Euonymus Fall Foliage Shrub Full sun

33. Periwinkle Spring-summer flowers Ground cover Shade – part shade

34. Ajuga Spring Flowers Ground Cover Part – full shade

35. Winter Creeper No flowers Ground cover Full sun to full shade

36. Pachysandra Ground cover Full shade

37. Hosta Summer flowers Part shade

38. Coral Bells - Heuchera

39. Sedum

40. Fountain Grass

41. Geranium Summer flowers Sun

42. Marigold Summer flowers Sun

43. Impatiens Summer flowers Shade

44. Begonia Summer flowers

45. Pansy Spring or Fall Sun or part shade