Fruit Trees - Early Spring

We love to see the effects of skilled pruning! Done right, seasonal pruning -

  • Calms trees, creating lateral branching and fruit spurs, rather than vertical growth

  • Creates an open scaffold structure for air flow and sun penetration

  • Ensures a sturdier and stronger tree to carry heavy fruit and snow/ice

  • Air flow is so important for disease resistance - we often work with clients to also open up air flow around the orchard

With 30+ years of experience, we will guide your trees in the right direction! We use pruning ladders and/or a small track lift as needed, so no trees are too tall for care. (Track lift is only 6’ wide and can tuck into small spaces!)

Fruit Trees - Late Spring

Peach trees are unique and only fruit on new wood. For this reason, we tend to prune peaches once flower buds start to open.

This is also the time we like to install branch spreaders on young fruit trees, to create wide angle branch attachments. We install branch spreaders once wood is pliable, and remove them once the wood hardens in late summer.

Fruit Trees - Summer

If your trees have been extra stressed by past pruning, we sometimes calm them with a gentle mid-summer pruning (only when the weather is dry). This allows us to very gently, but deliberately, direct the trees’ response to the winter pruning. This should only be done with experience.

Evergreen Hedges and Foundation Shrubs

The wrong kind of pruning (ahem, shearing) causes evergreens and other foundation/hedge shrubs to continuously grow larger, while loosing all life in the interior and bottom. Let us show you another way! We practice “open and contain” pruning, which allows -

  • Full and lush greenery, with no bald spots, even while keeping shrubs to small and tight spaces

  • Natural, organic shapes, full of life, rather than rectangles or lollipops

Ornamental Trees

  • Trees with elegant, strong structure and healthy branches we can prune back to as needed - we never “clean out” the interior of any ornamental tree

  • No large wounds that shorten the lifespan of your ornamental trees. Instead, through skilled and deliberate outer canopy pruning, we train your trees to grow as directed - we never engage in unnecessarily large wounding

    We use pruning ladders and/or a small track lift as needed, so no trees are too tall for care. (Track lift is only 6’ wide and can tuck into small spaces).

Please be in touch, and together we can bring out the natural health and beauty of your landscape.