There are no essential skills when it comes to gardening - all you truly need is a patch of soil and some enthusiasm, but there are some that will help make your endeavours that bit more fruitful, and one of them is pruning. The main reason behind this is that there are lots of different reasons that you might want to prune a plant, and there are many common plants that benefit from it. If you know what you’re doing, your skills will go a long way to getting the best out of your garden and the plants in it. Let’s take a look at things in detail.
Why Prune?
In short, pruning involves selectively removing bits of a plant. This might mean snipping off a few leaves from a bonzai, or even cutting off the branches from a fully grown tree. Broadly, ...
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