Pruning your ornamentals trees and shrubs is a great practice to enhance their beauty and decoration of your landscape as well.

1. Pruning of Ornamental Trees and Shrubs
Do you have trees in your yard which you consider as your prized possessions? If yes, then
taking the right care of trees, shrubs and plants become your utmost responsibility. Cleaning of
yard, fertilization and watering are tree care activities which are generally considered most
important. But tree pruning is also an equally vital activity.
Pruning is a silvicultural and horticultural practice that involves removal of selective parts of a
tree or shrub. The pruning is done for various reasons like shaping the tree, maintaining or
improving tree’s health by removing dead or non-productive wood, reducing down the risk of
falling branches, harvesting the yield for quality fruits and flowers, preparing some nursery
specimens etc. Proper and apt pruning can enhance the beauty of plants, shrubs and trees.
Pruning your ornamentals trees and shrubs is a great practice to enhance their beauty and
decoration of your landscape as well. But for a successful pruning, one should be aptly aware if
3 things: Why, When and How, which are –
1. The reason of why to prune
2. The correct timing to prune
3. Follow and use proper tools and techniques to prune
Pruning of ornamental trees and shrubs involves simple yet professional techniques to provide
your ornamental trees and shrubs with required attractive shapes. It is very important for the
person to know what to prune prior to practice. The most common and popular pruning
techniques for ornamental trees and shrubs are formal hedges, pleaching, pollarding, espalier,
thinning, topping, topiaries, headings and close clipping forms. Among all these, Hedging is the
most frequently used form of ornamental pruning

2. Why to prune your Ornamental Trees and Shrubs –
To maintain and improve your plant’s health
To provide desirable shape to plants
To remove dead, un-productive, diseases or broken wood
To improve fruiting and flowering
To remove rubbing or crossing of branches
To augment visibility
To enhanced safety
To improve air circulation and sun exposure
To rejuvenate deciduous shrubs
To restore symmetry and balance
To control required shape and size
But along with all these, one should always be careful that if apt pruning enhances your tree’s
beauty, an improper pruning can also destroy the natural beauty of your ornamental trees and
shrubs along with reducing down your landscape’s potential while disposing it off to several
maladies. So, services from a professional arborist should be preferred to ensure a fruitful and
secure pruning.