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Gardening

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3. Prune the bare branches back to just above a spot where there are little nodes that

Thu Apr 30, 2020, 05:34 PM

Apr 2020

a smaller branch will grow out of. I've got a bunch of forsythia bushes I started that will need that treatment as soon as they stop blooming.

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Need advice on pruning. We planted this smoketree about 2 years ago, in Spring, and [View all] japple Apr 2020 OP

I thought I would look up "smoke Tree"..am not familiar with it asiliveandbreathe Apr 2020 #1

prune out everything that does not fan out from the center. mopinko Apr 2020 #2