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be pruned
verb
To remove excess material from a tree or shrub; to trim, especially to make more healthy or productive.
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When should it be pruned?
When should holly be pruned?
Broken or damaged branches should be pruned.
These deserve to be pruned.
Even overgrown jade plants can be pruned.
Hybrid teas, floribundas and miniatures should be pruned now.
Honeysuckle will grow in shade and can be pruned hard.
The same principle applies to wisteria, which should be pruned this month.
Wisteria must be pruned hard now and again in summer if it is to flower.
In preparing a native tree for transplantation, both top growth and roots should be pruned back.
Debris has to be cleaned, and splintered trees have to be pruned.
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