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I’ve been wanting to clean up this youpon holly, but after reading a book on tree trimming, this tree is the exact diagram they use to show which branches to cut out. Spoiler alert, it’s most of them.
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I’ve been wanting to clean up this youpon holly, but after reading a book on tree trimming, this tree is the exact diagram they use to show which branches to cut out. Spoiler alert, it’s most of them.


If I were to trim the branches that cross/rub or go back through the tree, that would be more than half the foliage. Should I just give it a light shaping each year or cut those two branches in the “Y”? (which would cut out a lot of leaves)

It was planted too close to the house and it’s apparently never been shaped before. But the wife enjoys it.

A professional niwaki practitioner could probably make this thing a masterpiece.

by MyceliumHerder

1 Comment

  1. Swalex420

    Leaving the crossing over at this point; you don’t want to cut the mature branches. Just prune dead wood and then on pruning thinner branches you don’t like

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