Part one is a video tutorial we made a year ago to show how to structurally or formatively prune young deciduous trees. Part two show how the trees responded favorably to our pruning one year later. Part One (December 2020) Part Two (February 2022)
Are you frustrated with all of your shrubs being sheared into boring geometric shapes—spheres, ovals, rectangles—or left to grow in a tangled, misshaped mess? How about looking to the East—all the way to Japan—for some inspiration to revitalize your garden? When you think of a Japanese garden, what comes to mind? Probably pagoda lanterns, pine […]
Are you frustrated with all of your shrubs being sheared into boring geometric shapes—spheres, ovals, rectangles—or just being left to grow in a tangled mess? How about looking to the East—all the way to Japan—for some inspiration to revitalize your garden? Think sukashi and niwake—that is, Japanese style aesthetic pruning! The Japanese pruning styles called sukashi […]
We do more than just top notch, expert aesthetic pruning. We do hard core tree removals as well. The trees in this video are numbers 20,000 and 20,001 that we’ve removed in the last 36 years. Well, that may not be the exact number. We lost count a long time ago. But you get the […]
Although this video is a specific tutorial on how to prune several varieties of Japanese maples, the basic principles presented here are applicable to all ornamental deciduous trees and shrubs and many conifers as well. You can find a written study guide on pruning Japanese maples at https://goodnewstree.com/2019/11/18/how-to-prune-laceleaf-japanese-maples/ Happy pruning!
This video is a quick overview tutorial on basic pruning techniques of apple, pear, cherry and plum trees with a few other life-changing tips thrown in as well. For a full tutorial guide on how to prune an apple tree for fruit, check out this video at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=znipS…. Please enjoy!