11 Reasons for Pruning

 

Pruning is an important and common maintenance for garden trees. Here are ten reasons that pruning should be implemented in home gardens or orchards.

1. 1. To stimulate growth: through proper pruning on a healthy plant, new growth is encouraged and stimulated.
   2. To rejuvenate an older plant: cutting an old shrub back will help rejuvenate it.
   3. To encourage fruit production.
   4. To take cuttings for propagation purposes.
   5. To keep a fast growing tree in bounds.
   6. To give a plant shape, or form topiary and novelty plants and bonsai.
   7. To remove healthy but undesirable growth (suckers, waterspouts, or over-cross growing branches).
   8. To remove dead, dying, or diseased growth.
   9. To reduce transplant shock on a newly planted tree.
   10. To restrict growth from an already full grown tree.
   11. To reduce potential hazards: overgrowth in a high fire hazard area, or cutting crowns around power lines.