Pruning Cuts

You will have to double click on photo to make it larger, hopefully you can read it. Perfect time of year to be pruning most of your woody plants, EXCEPT the ones that will be blooming soon. Prune them after they bloom, like lilacs & forsythia. If you haven't pruned before, practice with your pruners on a branch you intend to toss out anyway. Pruners are good for smaller branches, use the lopers for bigger branches like 1/2 - 1". Pruning saws, chain saws, hedge saws for the bigger stuff. Wound paint is not recommended anymore except for oak. Never remove more than 1/3 of a tree in any given year, unless 1/2 of it is dead, that doesn't count! Rejuvenating an old neglected tree might take a couple of years.