Tips Pruning Deciduous Trees

Prune deciduous trees when they are dorminant; Febuary and March. NEVER PRUNE A TREE DURING THE PERIOD FROM BUD EXPANSION TO FULL LEAF EXPANSION. (i.e. foughly trom April throught May.) A tree uses a very large amount of reserved energy to push out the new leaves and expand them fully. Prunning causes more loss of energy, due to the need to recover from the wound. This leads to more stress on the tree. If the tree is diseased or stressed by drought or flood the tree could die.

Flash, Beth thinks Chuck has had a Good Idea

As you may know, Beth doesn’t like all of my ideas for the courtyard, some might say she doesn’t like any of my ideas. She’s rejected great ideas like; having a birch tree, a Japanese Red Maple or Wisteria in the courtyard. Even the Prime Rose and Lilies where rejected, (but I snuck them in anyway). My latest idea is to take the perennial sun flowers out to the G2G prairie and plant Climbing Hydrangea against the north wall. The Climbing Hydrangea are really neat, they grow to be 70-80 feet tall and have 10 inch big white flowers. They probable won’t get that big here in Minnesota. And guess what, Beth likes this idea. I think this is a first.

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