Pruning for Safety, Beauty & Health of Your Trees
Trees are valuable for so many reasons. They produce oxygen and provide homes for wildlife. Mature trees increase property values by as much as 19%, and they can lower air-conditioning costs by shading the home. Kids love to climb them, and most everyone is touched by their beauty.
Tree pruning plays an important role in ensuring that young trees mature and that mature trees remain healthy.
Why Prune?
While pruning is important to healthy trees, each cut has the potential to change the growth of the tree. Therefore pruning should be undertaken with utmost care. Here are three main reasons to prune your trees.
Personal Safety – Storms can crack or break branches and limbs, and even healthy trees have dead branches. Pruning removes these dangers, before they fall and cause harm to people, animals or property.
Enhanced Beauty – Pruning can improve the shape and appearance of a tree. While it\’s fine for homeowners to trim a few wayward branches, it\’s best to call a professional arborist for a large job. Poor pruning can risk the life of a tree, by removing too many limbs and branches or through other mistakes.
Trees\’ Health–Trees can develop diseases. When problems are detected early, pruning the sick branches and limbs can save many trees. Pruning is also important for increased airflow, which benefits the tree. Crossed branches that are rubbing together can wound the tree and should be removed.
Best Time to Prune
If you notice that a tree is sickly or has limbs or branches that are in danger of falling, call for help immediately. Routine shaping is best done in late winter, before strong spring growth.
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