Pruning

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Expert Pruning Services across Bournemouth, Christchurch & Poole: Creating Beauty and Health

Pruning is an art and science, and it is critical to the beauty, vigour, and health of your roses, shrubs, and trees. At Jackson's Garden Services, operating across Bournemouth, Christchurch, and Poole, our specialists understand the intricacies of the various forms of pruning, so your plants not only look their best but continue to thrive for years to come. Proper pruning is an investment in your garden's long-term health.

Pruning is necessary to maintain your garden's beauty and health.

Apart from the cut, pruning is a natural horticultural practice with numerous advantages. Not carrying it out, on the other hand, has several disadvantages:

The benefits of Proper & Regular Pruning:

Promotes overall wellness of the plant: Removing dead, diseased, and damaged branches prevents the disease from spreading, and allows the plant to channel its energy towards the development of healthy growth.

Encourages Healthier Form & Growth: Pruning at a strategic location can encourage new healthy growth, improve air circulation within the plant, and develop a sturdy, balanced framework resistant to wind and snow breakage.

Encourages Flowering & Fruiting: Pruning carried out regularly on such plants as fruit trees and roses encourages more abundant and higher-quality flowers and better fruit set.

Maintains Desired Size & Shape: Pruning maintains plants at the desired size and shape so that they do not grow too big and obstruct walkways, views, or light. Pruning also enables plants to be trained into ornamental shapes.

Rejuvenation: Older, mature plants may be refreshed through remedial pruning, stimulating new growth from the base.

Enhanced Light Penetration & Air Exchange: Thinning the canopy eliminates moisture accumulation, discouraging fungal disease, and allows greater exposure of inner leaves and low branching to the sun.

The Disadvantages of Not Pruning:

Poor health: Dead or diseased wood can provide an avenue of attack for disease and pests, compromising the overall health of the plant.

Fewer Blooms/Fruit: Most blooming and fruit plants will bear smaller, fewer flowers and fruit if they are not pruned.

Overgrowth and Congestion: The foliage may become congested, knotted, and overly grown, deteriorating condition and even blocking entrances or the passage of light.

Increased Disease Risk: Lack of air circulation among thickly planted plants allows fungal diseases of the powdery mildew family to thrive.

Structural Instability: Branches that are weak, crossing, or poorly anchored tend to break, especially due to wind, and represent a hazard.

Unsightliness: The garden may appear ugly if it is not pruned, look untidy, and have no beauty.

Types of Pruning & How We Approach Them

Our experienced staff at Jackson's Garden Services employ various pruning techniques, according to the specific needs of the plant concerned and the time of year:

1. Pruning Roses

To encourage vigorous new growth, prolific flowering, good habit, and removal of dead, non-productive wood.

Season: Principally towards the end of winter/early spring (February-March in Bournemouth) for Hybrid Teas and Floribundas, and when they have flowered for rambling roses.

How We Do it: We emphasize the removal of dead, diseased, and cross growth. On bush roses, we cut back for an open goblet shape to an outward-facing bud. We understand the specific needs of the different types of roses, from the climbers to the shrub roses.

2. Fruit Tree Pruning:

To maximize fruit set and fruit quality, supply support, ensure good air movement, and regulate tree size.

Timing: This depends on the fruit – apples and pears are usually pruned in the winter, but stone fruits like plums and cherries are usually pruned in the summer to minimize the risk of disease.

How We Do It: We use techniques such as 'formative pruning' on young trees for the purposes of developing shape, and 'maintenance pruning' on mature trees, including thinning out dense growth, taking out suckers and water shoots, and stimulating fruit spurs.

3. Pruning of Trees and Shrubs (Ornamental)**

Objective: To maintain size and form, and enhance beauty and ornamental qualities such as flowers or bark.

Season: Usually late winter to early spring for deciduous trees, and after flowering for most spring-flowering shrubs. Evergreen shrubs can usually be pruned late spring to early summer.

How We Do It: This entails:

Deadheading: Cutting off faded flowers to stimulate further blooms and to prevent seed development (e.g., Dahlias, Rhododendrons).

Thinning: Removing entire branches to increase air and light circulation.

Reduction: Pruning the plant's branches down to shorten the plant's size.

Shaping: Pruning to form a specific shape to fit into a space.

Rejuvenation Pruning (Hard Pruning): Hard cutting back to induce new growth from the base, best used on specific overgrown shrubs.

Crown Thinning/Crown Lifting (for large trees): For large trees, it is the removal of low-growing branches to lift under-canopy clearance or to thin the crown to provide greater light penetration, all carried out with professional and safety-minded intent.

4. Shrub Pruning

Cause: In order to control the size, encourage flowering, preserve health, and improve the plant's natural shape.

Based primarily on whether the shrub flowers on the old wood (after it has been pruned) or new wood (pruned late winter to early spring).

How We Do It: Includes practices such as formative pruning on young shrubs, regular maintenance pruning on mature ones, and the regular hard renovation pruning of mature plants.

Why Use Jackson's Garden Services for Your Pruning Needs

Pruning is a daunting business, and the incorrect cuts can cause irreparable damage, even killing the plant. For this reason, it is best to get the professionals from Jackson's Garden Services of Bournemouth, Christchurch, and Poole to prune for you:

Gardeners: Horticulturists possess an intimate understanding of the plants' physiology, the growth habits, and the specific pruning requirements of an incredible range of species. They know where and when to exactly prune the plants. Accuracy & Care: We utilize sharp, sterilized instruments and practice clean, precise cutting, stimulating rapid healing and minimizing plant stress. Safety First: Reducing large trees and shrubs is unsafe when working at height. We have employees who have been trained to work safely and use the right equipment. Long-term health focus: We prune not just for short-term beauty but with the long-term vigor, form, and wellness of your plants at the forefront, assuring future beauty and bounty. Local insight: Knowing our local climate and most common types of plants in Bournemouth, Christchurch, and Poole enables us to provide super-relevant and appropriate pruning advice. Full Service: We provide the entire spectrum of pruning, from the delicate attention to roses to the heavy pruning of shrubs, to your garden's individual requirements. Allow Jackson's Garden Services to do the professional pruning your garden needs. Book an appointment now and see your plants thrive in our hands.