By handling it with care, you can encourage a healthier, more productive cherry tree. By understanding these techniques and the best time to get your pruning shears out, you can ensure that your ...

Vigorous stone fruit species, such as plum, cherry, apricot, and peach trees, often benefit most from summer pruning. The most effective dwarfing effect of pruning typically occurs in early summer ...

Open center form: There is no central leader; instead, the tree has an open, vase-like form. This type of pruning works for almond, apricot, cherry, fig, nectarine, peach, pear, persimmon ...

Five-person pruning crews have been working since November to trim the various orchards of his operation. On Thursday, March 20, a crew was working through rows of Rainier cherry trees adjacent to ...

If you have not had the time to prune your fruit trees in winter, now is the opportune time. A little pruning now can reduce the work needed to care for your trees throughout the year. Why prune? The ...

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Trained trees, such as espaliers, cordons, pyramids and fans should be pruned in late August or early September. When pruning it's essential to keep your secateurs sharp. Blunt tools can cause ...

From pruning to soil rehabilitation, this is how the cherry blossoms trees on the National Mall are preserved (and how they're cloning Stumpy).

Bursts of white and pink have started to spring up at the Capitol Campus in Olympia. That’s right, blossom-lovers: The cherry ...