Find out which tree pruning tools you should use for everything from light trimming to cutting off large branches.

It can grow as fast as 1.5 to 1.8 m (5 to 6 feet) per year, topping out at 7.5 9 m (25 to 30 feet). Like most varieties of willow, curly willow needs intensive pruning to keep its brittle wood from ...

Forget sunflowers and asters, there's a flower that beats them both, and these flowers give you a sign of spring when they ...

The corkscrew willow, which is also called Salix matsudana Tortuosa, has a very different growth pattern than other tree varieties. The limbs of the tree are much smaller in diameter and they twist in ...

Coppicing involves pruning growth back to, or near, ground level in winter and is used for coloured willow and hazel varieties. The same trees respond to pollarding, which is a taller version of ...

cinerea are also sometimes called pussy willow. While typically found in wild wetlands, you can grow this swampy ...

Late winter (February) or early spring (March), before the leaves begin to appear on the stems, is traditionally considered the best time to prune. However, to allow the maximum time to enjoy ...

Not all trees are suitable for pollarding and it would be a tree pruning mistake to try this technique without researching beforehand. There are many trees that can be pollarded and it is deciduous, ...