Green Heart Lifestyle Releases New Information on the Right Time Schedule to Follow for Effective Pruning

Green Heart Lifestyle, the Niagara Falls, NY based garden tools company, has released new information regarding the ideal time schedule to follow for effective pruning as a part of their 2017 gardening and garden tools promotion campaign.

Pruning is a great practice for all beginners in gardening to master - it helps increase one’s plant yield, makes it more healthy and ensures that it remains disease free. “But the key to successful pruning,” says Aad Hermann, President of Green Heart Lifestyle, ”is doing it at the right time. Begin your pruning in the right season, and you will not have to worry about your plant’s health for an entire year.”

This is a thought echoed by most practitioners, as the late dormant season is considered to be the best for most pruning. Using tree trimmers in late winter, just before spring growth starts, leaves fresh wounds exposed only for a short length of time until new growth begins the wound healing process.

This is helpful in making the plants grow faster. Another advantage of pruning in late winters is that it's easier to make pruning decisions without leaves obscuring plant branch structure. For some plants and trees, pruning in this season helps to avoid certain diseases as well as physiological problems.

This can be seen in the case of fruit trees like apple where a whole variety of apple trees such as flowering crabapples, mountain ash, hawthorns and shrub cotoneasters are healthier when pruned during the dormant season. The moisture during rainy or humid weather is harmful as are summers and spring, as the chances of infection increases during these months.

But shrubs grown primarily for foliage and not for their showy leaves, such as alpine currant, barberry, and honeysuckle, should be pruned in spring before their growth begins. In other cases, even the kind of pruning that has taken place matters. Plants with marginally hardy stems such as clematis and shrub roses should be pruned back to live wood before their flowering season.

Hardier shrubs like the late-blooming spireas and smooth (snowball) hydrangeas should be pruned to the first pair of buds above the ground. To learn more about the right pruning practices, visit Green Heart Lifestyle’s official website or check out their range of pruning shears at their Amazon storefront.