The Art of Winter Pruning

Here’s Ira working with a beautiful mature Black Oak tree (Quercus velutina).

In the first picture, the limbs are marked for reduction after some thought about the tree’s shape, situation, lean, wind load, and how to reduce its tip-weight for health.

In the last photograph, you can see the lateral reductions. It takes more than a “tree cutter” to read and interpret a tree and how it might best respond and be nourished.

Looking forward to seeing how this Black Oak leafs and responds moving foward. (This is a not-so-subtle request for spring to giddy up.)