Yes, I love the young foliage too. Made my heart sing to see multiple new stems popping up so enthusiastically!
Thought I would do an update, almost ten months after this fascinating and informative thread was started. After a rocky start in the spring, when...
Third year update: as per Ron B's advice, I concentrated on excluding the deer (by putting up a fence the next spring) and watched what the...
Wow JT!! You are so kind and generous with that fantastic information. You have provided me (and others reading here) with materials equivalent...
Thank you Wendy!!! I look forward to going thru Pruning: Way of Maple!!
Emery, given your concern for the look of the bark of my wee tree, I suppose this article is one for me to follow! Read This If You Grow Japanese...
Boo-hoo JT1! I wish your post advising against winter pruning had come sooner!! I had a sense it was bad but honestly there really is so much...
Well, I already cut where Alain suggested in red on the photo, so i hope my timing is okay It's been unseasonably cold these past few weeks here...
Thanks again Alain! That was not the instruction I expected, but I am sure the tree will recover much better since not such a drastic pruning. Cheers!
Thank you Alain. So you wouldn't be concerned about the tight 'V' junction where the two dominant branches join the trunk? Also, is it best to do...
Quick Backgrounder: I bought this tree in 2008. In 2017, it isn't taller than 3 feet. It was in a container for the longest time and experienced...
Thank you for replying Michael. The base of this one is hidden by an overgrown rhodo, pieris and the arbutus unedo visible in the photo. Although...
It rained last night and when I looked out my window the yew had splayed. It's obviously not been properly pruned over the years. Is there...
