Hello,
Having done some pruning of 3 chinese elms this weekend, there are a few things that come up and I wanted to ask about.
Its 1 thing to have read a lot about pruning, styling, etc etc, but its another to do it yourself and I find myself not knowing which to keep and prune.
For starters, on places where more than 1 branch come out, I know that this is not good. It creates a bulge of growth which is ugly later on. So for example this:
They are not on top of each other, but still coming out of the same node, so would you say to chop one? They are both fairly big branches and developed, so it was difficult to make a decision, but if you think a decision SHOULD be made, I'll chop one. I don't think I'm shy about removing big bits, as painful as it seems, I understand the need to do these things and the tree be ugly so that in 2-3 years it can be better.
Aside from that, these pics are from after pruning away a good bit if dead branches and branches growing in to one another. I believe there is still more hard pruning to be done but I simply don't know which. I have ringed in red some of the bits which I think I should remove, thinking of how their leaves would add to the shape (or not, in this case).
I like these elms, (there is another next to 1 of these which I didn't do pics of ), I think they have a good bit of branch development but I don't know whether it is good enough to keep or worth doing over again. Plenty of buds all over, all dead ones have been removed.
I'd appreciate any thoughts, opinions. If you simply wanted to take a pic and scribble red rings over stuff you'd remove, it'd provide an insight
Having done some pruning of 3 chinese elms this weekend, there are a few things that come up and I wanted to ask about.
Its 1 thing to have read a lot about pruning, styling, etc etc, but its another to do it yourself and I find myself not knowing which to keep and prune.
For starters, on places where more than 1 branch come out, I know that this is not good. It creates a bulge of growth which is ugly later on. So for example this:
They are not on top of each other, but still coming out of the same node, so would you say to chop one? They are both fairly big branches and developed, so it was difficult to make a decision, but if you think a decision SHOULD be made, I'll chop one. I don't think I'm shy about removing big bits, as painful as it seems, I understand the need to do these things and the tree be ugly so that in 2-3 years it can be better.
Aside from that, these pics are from after pruning away a good bit if dead branches and branches growing in to one another. I believe there is still more hard pruning to be done but I simply don't know which. I have ringed in red some of the bits which I think I should remove, thinking of how their leaves would add to the shape (or not, in this case).
I like these elms, (there is another next to 1 of these which I didn't do pics of ), I think they have a good bit of branch development but I don't know whether it is good enough to keep or worth doing over again. Plenty of buds all over, all dead ones have been removed.
I'd appreciate any thoughts, opinions. If you simply wanted to take a pic and scribble red rings over stuff you'd remove, it'd provide an insight