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Apple pruning with hedgeclippers


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Sounds too bizarre to be true, but in the next garden over from where I was working today, a 'professional' gardening crew had done just that to four trees. The picture below isn't great, but you get the idea of the result. My coworker and I had a good laugh about it afterwards, but really, poor trees!

 

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I did some work last summer pruning some pleached crab apple trees. Very delicate work all done with secateurs. Whilst we were on the job the regular gardener came up to us and said "oh your doing it like that ? I was just going to run the hedge trimmer over them." Professional horticulturalist my ass.

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another case of profit v. doing a good job. that tree does not look healthy, i get really peed off seeing the results of butchers and cowboys who don't have a clue what they're doing.

 

 

Funny, by the size of the gut on the guy doing the 'pruning', he didn't look like much of a cowboy to me!

 

Fortunately, these trees are in the backyard, and so thankfully not visible from the street. I see it all over the place, though, viciously hacked back trees. It really is an eyesore, and affects the entire neighbourhood's appearance. We have local ordinances against this kind of tree mutilation, but they are never enforced.

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