Home > Pruning
In microeconomics, pruning taken as a metaphor from gardening, refers to the removal of "excess" items from a budget.
In gardening, pruning is the practice of removing diseased, overmature, or otherwise unwanted portions from a woody plant. Pinching back herbaceous plants, such as chrysanthemums to encourage denser growth or more profuse or delayed flowering, is a form of pruning. So, on an even smaller scale, is the garden practice of "deadheading," or removing spent flowers before they begin to set seed, in order to concentrate a plant's energy on continued flower production.
Pruning small branches can be done at any time of year. Large branches, with more than 5-10% of the plant's crown, can be pruned either during dormancy in winter, or in mid summer just after flowering, for species where winter frost can harm a recently-pruned plant. Autumn should be avoided, as the spores of disease and decay fungi are abundant at this time of year.
Some woody plants that tend to bleed profusely from cuts, such as maples, or which callous over slowly, such as magnoliaThis article refers to the plant. For other uses, see Magnolia (disambiguation). See text Magnolia is a large genus of about 120 flowering plant species in the subfamily Magnolioideae of the family Magnoliaceae. Magnolia species are mainly found in easters, are better pruned in summer or at the onset of dormancy instead. Woody plants that flower early in the season, on spurs that form on wood that has matured the year before, such as appleMalus domestica Malus sieversii Apple is the fruit ( pome) of the genus Malus belonging to the family Rosaceae, and is one of the most widely cultivated tree fruits. Table apples are of the species M. domestica or hybrids of it. Botanical origins Kazakhsts, should be pruned right after flowering, as later pruning will sacrifice flowers the following season.
Shearing to form hedgeIn gardening a hedge is a row of woody plants, generally of one species, used to demarcate spaces. If a mixture of small trees and shrubs is used instead, to keep people and animals from straying through pasture or cropland, the result is a hedgerow .s or topiarydinosaur at Epcot Topiary is the art of creating sculptures in the medium of shrubbery, after the Latin word for a landscape gardener, toparius''. Examples may be found at, among other places, various Disney theme parks and the hotels on those properties is also a form of pruning, in which most of the growing points are tipped back, to produced artificially dense growth. Proponents of pruning, both gardeners and orchardists , often argue that it is an artMona Lisa Although today the word art usually refers to the visual arts, the concept of what art is has continuously changed over centuries. Perhaps the most concise definition is its broadest—art refers to all creative human endeavors, excluding actions, and that it improves the healthHealth can be defined negatively, as the absence of illness, functionally as the ability to cope with everyday activities, or positively, as fitness and well-being (Blaxter 1990) In any organism, health is a form of homeostasis. This is a state of balance of the plant and makes sturdier structure, often referred to as the " scaffold"; opponents believe that pruning harms plants' " naturalNatural is defined as "of or relating to nature"; this applies to both definitions of 'nature': 'essence' ("one's true nature") and 'the untouched world' ("force of nature"). In music, Natural is used to describe the notes A, B, C, D, E, F, and G, as oppo" forms.
Gardening
