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Vines, Bushes & Trees
'Anything up to 15' tall.
Roses - Vines - Hedges - Bushes - Small & Mid-Sized Broadleaf & Needle Trees
"It's a clematis" is useful, but which pruning category is your particular cultivar? Get it wrong & there's (at least) one year without flowers. Let's get it right!
Some plants can be sheared, but most cannot...or should not. Some plants can be arborized, but many should not. Get these wrong and we have an u-g-l-y plant.
Let's maintain the beauty of each particular plant's form.
Fruit Trees
Fruit Trees don't follow the same rules as ornamentals.
Q: What do you want your
fruit tree for ?
- High fruit production?
- Shade tree that fruits?
Q: Which type of fruit is it ?
Each fruit (apple, cherry, fig, kiwi...) develops on a unique limb age. Prune wrong and
you get few (or no) fruit.
Q: How much work are
you willing to do, or
have done, each year ?
Fruit trees require more work than landscape trees.
- Fruit left on the ground
invites rodents.
- Some fruit left un-thinned,
may break limbs.
- Many need covered or pests
will ruin them first.
- Finally, some fruit just
shouldn't be attempted in
Western Washington.
Japanese Maples
Weeping or upright, mounding or cascading
these trees are special.
These trees are pruned based as much on the particular specimen as their form.
Don't forget to water them. Maples are understory plants; not meant for direct, full sun. With our longer, warmer, drier summers, those maples, left unprotected, will need more water..or they'll burn.
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