Pruning & Shaping
Weak Flowering on a Clematis Montana Reversed with a 30-Centimetre Hard Cut
A Clematis montana that has reached twelve feet and now gives only a handful of May flowers is...
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8 Fan Ribs Set on a Prunus Persica Against a Warm Wall with Gripple Wire
A Prunus persica fan needs its permanent shape settled before the first season ends. On a 1.8 m...
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6 Weeks Earlier Flowering from a Wisteria Sinensis Summer Cut with Okatsune 217
A late-summer pass on Wisteria sinensis, about six weeks after flowering, brings long green whips...
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3 Fruiting Arms Set on an Actinidia Deliciosa Kiwi Along Gripple Wire
A female Actinidia deliciosa trained to three arms on 3.15mm high-tensile wire is easier to prune...
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Bud-Prune a Camellia Japonica to 2 Flowers per Cluster with Okatsune 103 Snips
A mature Camellia japonica commonly carries four to seven buds on each terminal cluster by late...
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Reduce a Photinia Fraseri to 1.8 Metres over 2 Winters with Felco 22 Loppers
A Photinia Fraseri at 3.2 metres will not survive a single hard chop to 1.8 metres without going...
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6-Centimetre Internodes Set on a Wisteria Floribunda Macrobotrys along Gripple Wire
A wisteria that flowers well has short internodes, roughly 6 cm, held tight against a taut wire....
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Cloud-Prune a Pinus Sylvestris into 5 Pads over 3 Seasons with Niwaki Okubo Shears
A mature Pinus sylvestris can carry 30,000 to 100,000 needles spread across dozens of shoot tips....
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Lace-Prune a Malus Domestica Cox to 4 Fruiting Frameworks with Ars HP-VS8Z
A mature Cox's Orange Pippin left unpruned for three seasons carries dense inner growth that...
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