Your Pruning Essentials
Loppers are secateurs with long handles which are operated with both hands. The long handles let you reach higher and also give greater leverage. However, like secateurs, you should not force toppers to cut a branch which is too thick for them. ... [... more]
Better Homes & Gardens Australia |
Wattles (Genus Acacia )
Acacia make excellent garden plants. They range in habit from prostrate and low-growing species to larger shrubs and shade trees. Most respond to pruning immediately after flowering and, if carried out regularly, pruning can extend the life of ... [... more]
Australian National Botanic Gardens |
Espalier Plants
Choose a plant that already has two strong bottom side shoots or laterals. Dig a hole directly under the trellis. Place the tree into the hole and position the laterals in the same direction as the wire. Back fill and water in. Now tie the ? This ... [... more]
Gardening Talk |
Shrubs, Trees, Conifers And Groundcovers - Better Homes ...
Go easy when pruning trees. An established tree usually only needs some dead wood removed, but you may want to thin out the branches so more light reaches the garden beneath. Cut out weaker branches and then any that are growing immediately above ... [... more]
Better Homes & Gardens Australia |
Secateurs - Better Homes And Gardens
Avoid pruning spring-flowering plants like azaleas or rhododendrons in winter, as you'll be cutting off their flower display. Instead, wait until they've finished blooming. With the deciduous blossom trees, like flowering peaches, cherries and ... [... more]
Better Homes & Gardens Australia |
Nerium
Attractive evergreen shrub with lance shaped, leathery leaves and masses of flowers from early summer to late autumn. Usually a rounded shrub of 3-5 m but withstands pruning to a single stemmed tree form, if desired. ... [... more]
Janine's Garden |
Olives Rapidly Gaining In Popularity
"We looked carefully at each variety," Mr McLarnon said. "We wanted high oil output, varieties resistant to peacock spot that were mainly self-fertile, not too vigorous because of pruning considerations, tolerant to a high water table - ... [... more]
HortNET New Zealand |
Institute To Offer Certificate Course To Seasonal Vine ...
Marlborough campus manager Chris Morland said the course was designed to equip students' knowledge such as bench grafting and irrigation, and canopy management through shoot thinning, trimming and leaf plucking, and pruning. Marlborough ... [... more]
HortNET New Zealand |
Silverleaf (Chondrostereum Purpureum) - An Introduction ...
Protecting pruning wounds can prevent the entry of silverleaf. However, it is better to leave the wound untreated than to apply home-made or substandard wound dressings. If the wound dressing is of the wrong ... [... more]
HortNET New Zealand |
Persimmons On Ruakura Y'
Persimmon trees are tip bearing in habit and require special attention with regard to pruning. The fruiting zone tends to move away from the centre of the tree each year. This can leave large areas of unproductive ... [... more]
HortNET New Zealand |
Pruning Persimmons
HortResearch Publication - Pruning Persimmons A Mowat - HortResearch, Ruakura [... more]
HortNET New Zealand |
Pruning To Prevent Silverleaf
Use the correct pruning tools. Cheap or blunt handsaws, loppers and secateurs will squeeze and split the wood, leaving ragged cuts and causing dieback. Split wood allows spores to enter deep into the xylem tissue. ... [... more]
HortNET New Zealand |
