Pruning or trimming is the most common tree maintenance procedure and can be done at any time of the year. As trees grow, they need direction. This may be in the form of corrective pruning, thinning, removing deadwood and crossing branches, to make trees stronger. Trees provide many benefits including beauty, tranquility and shade. Well cared for, attractive trees will also considerably increase your property value.
Professional tree pruning services is needed to enhance the natural beauty of your trees and shrubs, helping you preserve the strength, stature and seasonal character they add to your property, and addresses architectural tree care concerns such as safety, shape and appearance.
Specific types of pruning may be necessary to maintain young and mature trees in healthy, safe, and attractive conditions.
Trimming helps develop good structure in growing trees and shrubs, allowing for maintaining space between buildings, streets, other plants, utility lines etc. and removes hazardous dead or broken limbs. Pruning can be a source of stress on mature trees and shrubs when improperly done.
Cleaning is the removal of dead, dying, diseased, weakly attached, and low-vigor branches from the crown of a tree.
Thinning is selective branch removal to improve structure and to increase light penetration and air movement through the crown. Proper thinning opens the foliage of a tree, reduces weight on heavy limbs, and helps retain the tree’s natural shape.
Raising removes the lower branches from a tree to provide clearance for buildings, vehicles, pedestrians, and vistas.
Reduction minimizes the size of a tree, often for utility line clearance. Reducing a tree’s height or spread is best accomplished by pruning back the leaders and branch terminals to secondary branches that are large enough to assume the terminal roles. Compared to topping, reduction helps maintain the form and structural integrity of the tree.
Crown cleaning entails the selective removal of crossing, co-dominant, dead, diseased and dying limbs. The purpose of this pruning is to establish proper branching structure to develop a stronger, healthier tree canopy.
Hazard pruning is the crown cleaning and crown thinning to reduce a tree’s potential for storm damage.Most storm damage trees is due to co-dominant trunks of similar size;structural problems of this type must be corrected while the tree is in the early growth stage.
Other examples of common pruning operations are formative pruning, lifting the canopy, thinning the canopy, reducing weight, reducing size, French pruning, English pruning, Japanese pruning or contemporary pruning. There is no tree too large or too small to prune.