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Dormant Pruning | Atlanta

"That shrub was so cute when we put it in 10 years ago"

"That tree was the perfect accent 5 years ago"

We hear these comments from our Atlanta clients all of the time. The beautiful landscape that your were so proud of when it was first installed is now blocking your windows, tapping on your gutters, and is making you walk through the grass instead of on the sidewalk. Fortunately, this is the perfect season to rejuvenate that tired, overgrown landscape and make it look like brand new.

"Rennovative Pruning" is the art of bringing shrubs and trees back into scale with the rest of the landscape. Most shrubs benefit from a rejuvenation every few years, and the timing is critical. Evergreens and most foundation plants, whose main purpose is foliage, can be severely reduced in scale during late winter, January-February. Once they are brought back to their original size, they will leaf back out as spring arrives. A healthy dose of fertilizer will help in this process.

There are techniques to shaping the shrubs or trees in order to achieve the desired look that you want in the spring, and remember, timing is everything. You do not want to wait too late in the year to perform this chore. Pruning during the dormant season, late winter, gives these broadleaf evergreens the best chance of setting new leaf buds in the spring.

Dormant and rejuvenation pruning requires the proper tools. A good set of hand pruners, pruning shears, and loppers, not your electric powered hedge shears. With hedge shears, each cut you make produces many new growing points that will result in the plant becoming extremely dense on top. This dense growth causes die back in the interior of the plant. This is not what you are trying to accomplish. The idea is to bring the plant back to its natural growth pattern, and to allow air and light to penetrate throughout the plant.

Now that you are all set to get out there in the cold and take all those problematic shrubs down to a manageable size, stop! Flowering shrubs are a different situation all together. Flowering shrubs produce their blooms on either the current seasons growth or on the previous seasons growth. Confused yet? If you prune at the wrong time of the year, you could severely delay or destroy the next season's bloom. When in doubt, you can prune just as the bloom is finishing, or call an expert.

So before you get frustrated and begin pulling your shrubs out by the roots, try rennovative/dormant pruning to bring new life to a weary winter landscape. Rennovative pruning is the perfect solution and now is the perfect time.

Clint Harris, Certified Arborist, owner of Acorn Tree Care

John Strickland, Landscape expert, Acorn Tree Care

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