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Originally Posted by Phalanopsis
Hi Maple, DO NOT prune the maple tree! all Acers will bleed profusely if pruned in spring. wait until late summer or even early autumn, and even then only on young trees.
Hazelnut trees are not so specific and can stand a good prune, but it will affect the crop. you need to keep the "scaffold" branches, and take out the stronger competing limbs. It is quite a complex tree and I could go on for hours about them, but i won't. Don't hesitate to let me know if you need anymore advice.
Bryan.
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Thanx for the info!!
((will deff hold off on the maple...can't stand the sight of blood!
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As far as the hazelnut goes its a 'look nice' tree, meaning the lady doesn't give a hoot about how many nuts she actually gets!! I was thinking of giving it a REALLY good prune, leaving just a few 'scaffold' branches and removing almost all of the other limbs...kinda making it a 'bonsai' nut tree?! D'you think it would work? Its about 2-2,5m tall and has about 7 or 8 of the 'scaffolds'.
Also, the Taxus that we re-planted in the fall
, out of the whole lot only 3 are looking like they made it through the winter! Those 3 have nice new shoots(?right term) and the other look like they are just existing..some of them are already crunchy!
One more brain picker Brian!! A friend has a euonymus (the yellow/green bushy kind-sorry, don't know the name!) in garden and wants to throw it out. We've decided to try and re-plant it in our 'foliage-for-florists' garden, anything in particular we need to do? We have quite a few of them already and they seem to love our soil so thats not a problem. It has though already started sprouting nice new leaves, but they want it out next week.