Pruning

Proper pruning is one of the primary methods of maintaining tree health and longevity. While there are various forms of pruning, Bush League holds a high standard for proper pruning practices to promote healthy growth and beauty for your trees.

Pruning Services

Crown Cleaning

Crown cleaning has a heavy focus on the tree's health and future growth as the goal is to target dying or diseased branches. Also any branches that grow against the natural flow of the tree's growth direction could lead to weakened limbs in the future.

Crown Thinning

Crown thinning is an important pruning method as not only reduces the weight on branches, but it also allows light and wind penetration into the interior of the canopy. Increasing the tree's ability to photosynthesize and respirate are the goals of thinning and are very beneficial.

Reductions

Crown reductions are done to tighten up the canopy and control the canopy spread. This is a common area for poor pruning as heading/topping/pollarding in most cases are harmful to the tree. When doing crown reductions, as with other pruning, a general rule is to remove no more than 1/3 of the canopy.

Crown Raise

Crown raising is exactly how it sounds, removing the lowest limbs that are either out of balance with the tree, or most commonly an obstruction of sorts such as low branches near driveways or areas where grass needs cutting.

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Clean Cuts

While those methods mentioned above are important to maintaining a solid tree health care program, the actual cuts themselves are equally as important not only for the tree's growth, but it's defenses as well. Properly placed clean cuts allows the tree to compartmentalize where the cut was made, sealing off it's wound so that it's not open to attracting insects or pathogens. A poorly made cut can take dramatically longer to compartmentalize leaving the tree exposed to pests and infections that can compromise the tree's health.

This is a properly placed cut that allowed the tree to correctly seal the wound with the branch collar.

Flush Cuts

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