Pruning Makes Your Home Garden Makeover Great

Relaxing in a beautiful landscaped garden is a perfect thing to do upon arriving home from a stressful day at work. But your garden would not become beautiful in just a snap. It needs to be beautified and maintained through daily watering and pruning.

In maintaining a beautiful garden, one important thing to do regularly is to prune or trim your plants.

Pruning is cutting off some unwanted branches, buds, roots or stems of your plants. It is necessary to produce healthy plants with even shapes and sizes.

It is also done to get specimens needed for transplants.

In trimming, it is necessary that you remove dead, damaged or crowded stems.

Different trimming techniques are done on different kinds of plants such as roses, shrubs, bushes or fruit-bearing trees, and grapevines. Even ornamental grasses are trimmed to prevent them from growing irregularly.

In trimming ornamental grasses, you can tie the tops before cutting and these should be cut close to the ground.

For spring-flowering shrubs like lilacs or forsythia, you have to cut fading flowers, which is more commonly called as deadheading. This prevents seeds from forming and promotes growth of flower buds. 

Make your spring-flowering plants bloom by pruning old stems to make way for new stems to grow. And if they have grown somewhat out of proportion, prune them to between three to four inches.

Trimming evergreens with broad leaves like holly firethorn is so easy. You just need to prune stems with injured foliage.

For evergreen shrubs like boxwood, prune them while they are about to grow so that the new growth can cover the tip. The bush should also be prune thinly in the inside so that the outside layer won’t become thick. This is to prevent insects from thriving on the foliage.

In pruning evergreen trees and other plants that are prone to pests, you have to cut all dead or damaged limbs. Cut also those that crawl along pathways or other structures, and those that have crossed with other limbs.

The right time to prune evergreen trees and other prone-pest plants is during winter since insects are minimal during cold weather. You can also clearly see the plant’s architecture during winter.

Butterfly bush and other semi-woody plants can also be trimmed during winter. You can prune these types of plants for at least four inches to allow new stems to grow and produce more beautiful flowers.

Pruning is indeed one good way of making your plants grow and look beautiful.