Category: Master Gardener Home Visits

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The Annual Pruning Clinic

The 2026 Pruning Home Visits Application Request window is OPEN through mid-March, 2026.  APPLY NOW to get personalized pruning instructions from our Extension Master Gardeners.  Click below to apply.   Woody plants remain healthier, more productive, and more beautiful with strategic, well-timed pruning.  Pruning young plants guides their growth into a strong and balanced structure.  Pruning older plants opens them up to sunlight and airflow, limiting the opportunities for disease to infect them.  Proper pruning can also rejuvenate them with...

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Pruning: Dos and Don’ts

  Pruning woody shrubs is both art and science.  Selecting which branches to leave and which to remove allows a gardener to train a woody plant into a pleasing, balanced shape that fits the available space.  Some gardeners use pruning techniques to create neatly trimmed topiary, elegant hedges, or espaliered fruit trees.  Gardeners may also prune roots and branches and remove leaves and buds to train trees to live as bonsai in shallow containers.  Woody plants are extremely adaptable and...