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Tree Pruning Service
Professional tree pruning keeps trees healthy and helps direct growth where it’s most needed to sculpt your tree line to a beautiful canopy on your property. It’s important to use professional tree care specialists to properly prune your trees in and around Minneapolis. We have the equipment to properly trim trees without disturbing your yard and the expertise to ensure proper growth.
Is Pruning Trees Necessary?
Pruning is the most common tree maintenance procedure. Although forest trees grow quite well with only nature’s pruning, landscape trees require a higher level of care to maintain their structural integrity and aesthetics. Pruning must be done with an understanding of tree biology. Improper pruning can create lasting damage or even shorten the tree’s life.
REASONS TO PRUNE TREES
Because each cut has the potential to change the growth of the tree, no branch should be removed without a reason. Common reasons for pruning are to remove dead branches, to improve form, and to reduce risk. Trees may also be pruned to increase light and air penetration to the inside of the tree’s crown or the landscape below. In most cases, mature trees are pruned as corrective or preventive measures, as routine thinning does not necessarily improve the health of a tree.
WHEN TO PRUNE TREES
Most routine pruning to remove weak, diseased, or dead limbs can be accomplished at any time during the year with little effect on the tree. As a rule, growth, and wound closure are maximized if pruning takes place before the spring growth flush.
A few tree diseases, such as oak wilt, can be spread when pruning wounds provide access to pathogens (disease-causing agents). Susceptible trees should not be pruned during active transmission periods.
