How Pruning Can Make Your Home Garden Beautiful?

Making every corner of your home beautiful, neat and clean is definitely rewarding to the eyes. It doesn’t only make you proud for maintaining a beautiful home but it would also earn you good compliments from your neighbours and friends who get to see all your effort. And what comes to a beautiful home is of course, a beautiful garden with lots of lovely flowers, lush bushes and green trees for all the people to see and appreciate.

Having a beautiful garden is good to the eyes. It is definitely one rewarding act for a painstaking effort. And that effort revolves around taking good care of the plants and spending time, money and effort in maintaining the flowers and trees in your garden.

So just how does your garden come out as beautiful as it is? Of course, this is through pruning.

Pruning is plainly cutting off unwanted stems or branches of your plants, either roses, shrubs, fruit-bearing trees, orchids or anything that you planted in your garden. Pruning is extremely important if you want your plants to grow beautiful in shape and sizes, have nice flowers, look neat and clean with no crawling limbs on the pathway.

Pruning also prevents any accidental falling of broken branches of trees during bad weather. It is also one way of getting samples for nursery transplants.

In pruning, your aim is to make your plants look in their best natural form. To achieve this, you may consider doing either one of these two basic pruning methods: thinning and gradual rejuvenation.

If you prefer to follow the thinning method, you need to cut old branches or stems until what is left is only the main branch. This method allows the lower parts of the tree to absorb all the essential nutrients and get healthy in the process. In using this method, you need to be creative. Design your cutting in a way that the pruned plant won’t disfigure the overall look of your garden.

In gradual rejuvenation, you remove the oldest branches one by one every year and cut them a little above the ground. This is done for three consecutive years and is good for old plants.

As the term suggests, pruning through gradual rejuvenation is done by removing first, during the first year, at least one-third of the oldest branches. During the second year, you can prune at least one-half of the old stems and on the third year, cut out all the remaining old branches.