![]() ![]() ![]() “The wind could not get through them, penetrate them, at all, and they kept the leaves all the way up until almost Christmas,” he said. “If there’s too much congestion and it’s a tree that’s been genetically designed where the whole crown gets way too heavy, you want to go in to many inches or feet up the trunk and take some of the main limbs down so it’ll be balanced and it doesn’t become like a windsail,” Christopher said.īradford pears, popular in the early 1980s in housing developments, have this issue. Branches that are growing back towards the trunk, or overlapping can be pruned. While it depends on the tree species, many can be pruned all year round.Ĭuts should be made just above the branch collar, the area that connects the branch to the rest of the tree, he said. There are several reasons why a person might choose to prune a tree, from clearing dead, diseased or dying branches, to training young trees or for aesthetic reasons, Christopher said. Plus, there’s beech leaf disease - a new and deadly threat targeting American beech trees across the Valley. After a long stretch of dry weather followed by back-to-back heavy rainstorms in the Lehigh Valley, many shrubs and trees experienced rapid growth spurts. While proper pruning is essential for any tree owner, it’s especially important this year to manage growth. “They need that percentage in the canopy so they can photosynthesize.” When pruning, only a maximum 25% to 30% of the tree should be cut, he added. “A lot of trees don’t like to be pruned, so you got to go light,” Christopher said while lobbing off a couple branches from a northern catalpa. Rob Christopher, Easton's arborist and conservation manager ![]()
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