Tree Trimming and Shrub Pruning

Diaz Gardening & Landscaping is proud to offer professional Tree Trimming services in Pasadena California & nearby areas. With our experienced and knowledgeable team, your trees will be trimmed to the highest standard – removing dangerous or damaged branches and promoting healthy growth. Let us take care of your trees and keep your garden looking its best.

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Pruning is a practice that is periodically required on all woody landscape plants. Fruit trees, shrubs, young trees, or mature,
Diaz Gardening & Landscaping can provide all of your pruning needs.
Look below for more information on each aspect of pruning.

Mature Pruning
On mature trees, proper pruning is required to remove dead and dying branches to maintain plant health and safety. This is referred to as cleaning.
Research has now documented that thinning, the removal of live branches to reduce density, reduces wind resistance and subsequent storm damage.

Thinning should only be done on trees where the crown is “too dense.” Thinning should be concentrated on the outer portions of the canopy, leaving as many branches on the interior crown as possible.

In some instances, the crown or single branches require a reduction in length. This improves the form and shape of the plant, eliminates interference
with objects and structures, and compensates for structural weaknesses.

Lower branches may require pruning for similar reasons. This process, known as raising, can be used to increase the amount of light beneath the crown of a tree.

Gardeners at Diaz Gardening & Landscaping are trained to evaluate the condition of your trees. They can determine the types of trimming services required to balance your goals and those of managing plant health and safety.

Young Pruning
The time to prune might be earlier than you think. One type of pruning that is most frequently overlooked by consumers is structural pruning of young trees.

Trees evolved in forests where they tend to grow straight and lose lower branches due to competition for light. When planted in full sun in the landscape, many species tend to develop multiple stems or leaders. These are more prone to failure.

Lower branches tend to grow at the same rate as the terminal leader. This side branching results in weak attachments that also are likely to fail later in the life of the plant. So care for trees when they are young and growing quickly is critical to ensuring a strong framework for future growth.
This practice uses pruning cuts to maintain a dominant stem as a point of origin unless multiple stem “clumps” are desired.

Branches are pruned so their size remains proportional to the stem diameter at their point of attachment. As growth continues, some tree branches are removed to ensure adequate spacing between permanent scaffold limbs. The shape of the tree is maintained to provide a natural open-grown form typical of the species.

Specialty Pruning
Diaz Gardening can also develop and maintain formal styles including pollarding, espalier, pleaching, and topiary. Fruit tree pruning techniques are becoming increasingly popular as more consumers grow fruit bearing plants in their gardens. Vista pruning is the judicious removal of branches to enhance a specific view.
This is frequently performed for consumers with homes near mountains or the shore.

SHRUB PRUNING
People are often surprised to learn that Diaz Gardening specializes in pruning shrubs. But if we can routinely prune 75-foot trees, the Rhododendron in your foundation planting is easy in comparison.

Homeowners and landscape professionals often confuse shearing and pruning: they are very different concepts that produce very different results.

Shearing removes a portion of new growth each time it is performed. It produces an artificial shape rather than the natural form of the plant.
Shearing produces a formal appearance with a dense outer shell of foliage with little growth on interior portions of the crown. Because only a
portion of the new growth is removed, the plant continues to grow larger each year. Over time, it can out-grow its space.

Pruning removes older growth as well as new shoots. Because cuts are made deeper into the crown, the plant has a “looser” informal and natural
appearance that can be maintained according to the plant species or variety. Because pruning removes some older branches, a specific size can be
maintained for the space allotted for them.

Shearing is appropriate for formal gardens and for hedges. However, for individual plants, pruning is the better technique to sustain plant health
and appearance over time.