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The Green Giant’s Growth Habit Perhaps I’ve said it before, but it’s extremely helpful when you know what a plant’s growth habit is before you prune.  Growth habit is basically the shape a plant naturally wants to grow into and how the branching structure supports that shape.  For example: Arborvitae ‘Green Giant’ is pyramidal in [...]

I’d like to share with you a symptom that a standard flowering dogwood was showing.  The tree is about 16′ tall and was transplanted on a project of mine about a year ago. The  time of year was summer and I noticed the leaves were off-color with some of them dropping.  The tree had been [...]

Why Can’t I Just Shear It? I call this one of my “go-to” plants.  Manhattan Euonymus is tough, nice looking, fast growing, and cheap (I mean relatively inexpensive).  Yes you could shear it – many people do, but the result will be excessive, dense branching on the sheared ends.  This produces that mass of stems [...]

Shearing vs. Selective Hand Pruning Any time I write an article on pruning I’m tempted to go on a rant.  There’s just so much to the topic.  Between the endless list of plant types, numerous strategies and varying circumstances, one could probably dedicate an entire website to just pruning.  And this would be for a [...]