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2. What Is Pruning? Here's Why It's Essential In Every Garden - AOL

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   Size Reduction: Reduction cuts decrease the height (topping) and spread of a tree or shrub. Pruning also improves the health of the plant by reducing the above-ground portion of the plant relative ...

3. Tree topping - Wikipedia

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   If a large tree is unable to produce enough sugars to feed the roots, it will slowly die from starvation. [4] Some people have been known to top trees in order to stimulate new growth. When a tree is topped, many adventitious shoots, known as suckers begin to grow from the wound. This is the tree's response to the sudden loss of leaves.

4. Pruning - Wikipedia

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   Topping: Topping is a very severe form of pruning which involves removing all branches and growths down to a few large branches or to the trunk of the tree. When performed correctly it is used on very young trees, and can be used to begin training younger trees for pollarding or for trellising to form an espalier .

5. Pollarding - Wikipedia

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   Pollarding is a pruning system involving the removal of the upper branches of a tree, which promotes the growth of a dense head of foliage and branches. In ancient Rome, Propertius mentioned pollarding during the 1st century BCE. [1]

6. This Vibrant Evergreen Shrub Will Add Privacy To Your Garden ...

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   When planting hedges and screens, you can set plants up to 25% closer to create a closed wall. It is easy to overcrowd trees and shrubs when planting young plants because they take up so little of ...

7. Fruit tree pruning - Wikipedia

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   Regulatory pruning: This is carried out on the tree as a whole, and is aimed at keeping the tree and its environment healthy, e.g., by keeping the centre open so that air can circulate; removing dead or diseased wood; preventing branches from becoming overcrowded (branches should be roughly 50 cm (20 in) apart and spurs not less than 25 cm (10 ...

8. Apical dominance - Wikipedia

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   Pruning techniques such as coppicing and pollarding make use of this natural response to curtail direct plant growth and produce a desired shape, size, and/or productivity level for the plant. The principle of apical dominance is manipulated for espalier creation, hedge building, or artistic sculptures called topiary .

9. This Low-Maintenance Shrub Will Fill Your Fall And Winter ...

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   Consider pruning a few limbs from overhead trees to allow more sunlight to penetrate. Pruning camellias at the wrong time of year can also reduce flowering. Camellias start to set flower buds when ...