The Complete Guide to Landscape Design, Renovation, and Maintenance
by Cass Turnbull

PRUNING TREE-LIKE SHRUBS--SERIOUS PRUNING

Overview of pruning your trees.

Take out dead wood. Do this first and always.

Take out the worst of the crossing/rubbing branches.

Take out suckers.

Take off branches actually touching the ground.

Take off the worst of the wrong-way branches. Look for ones that dead back toward the center of the plant.

Take out the worst of the branches that head too far up or too far down.

Take off parallel branches to give more definition to the plant.

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