PRUNING plum trees is essential to maintain a fruitful crop each year and timing it right is the key to keeping a steady harvest - but as the harvest season comes to an end, when should you be ...

All ornamental shrubs and trees do not need annual pruning; some give better results without it, others require an annual light thinning out of the older wood, and some respond most satisfactorily ...

Pruning a young plum tree requires training it into this shape by selecting three to five main scaffold limbs, equally spaced around the tree, and removing others that could get in the way.

Gardening Diary week 30 by Reg Moule Pruning Plum trees, checking cabbage leaves and dividing Flag Iris... Pruning Plum trees. Plum trees are different to apples and pears in so much as the main ...

Homes & Gardens; Pruning in winter or, how to avoid the unkindest cuts: The Pecks. Updated: ; Jan. 24, 2015, 11:17 a.m. | Published: ; Jan. 24, 2015, 10:17 a.m.

Q: I have apple trees that we prune, but what about the plum tree? Does that need pruning? A: Plums are easier to prune. There aren't as many complicated rules as for apple trees. You can consider ...

• To make sure the fresh, new growth of ornamental grasses doesn't get muddled up with the tatty old leaves, they need some pruning. • Small evergreen grasses, such as Festuca glauca, can be ...