How To Prune Your Plants and Trees (Complete Guide)

A few of our RUclips subscribers (be sure to subscribe if you aren't already) reached out to us and requested that we do an in-depth guide on how to prune your plants and trees correctly to encourage growth and to train your plants to keep them beautiful all year long. In this week's video, Kathy demonstrates how to prune 10 common plants, hedges and trees that many of us can find in our gardens. Kathy covers how to properly deadhead, what to look for to figure out when you need to deadhead or prune your plants, the reasons why you should prune your plants, where you should cut your plants while pruning and why, how to train your plants to give them a desirable shape and much more.
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[@jenniferwarwick5644]

Thanks for sharing, loved the video. I'm going to watch more on your page now :)

[@GreenThumbNurseries]

Love to hear that! Thanks for tuning in Jennifer!

[@mariamuntean4777]

Love it 👍

[@GreenThumbNurseries]

Thank you! Cheers!

[@sheilakvale2001]

Great video thank you

[@GreenThumbNurseries]

Thank you for stopping by! :) Glad you enjoyed it!

[@murielwitham4442]

Kathy, that was really helpful. Thanks for some helpful information.

[@GreenThumbNurseries]

Glad it was helpful!

[@lauriefriend-hernandez4050]

Great info! I learned a lot! Thank you!!!

[@seniyeshepherd3050]

Thank you 💕

[@GreenThumbNurseries]

You are very welcome!

[@maryvanarsdel6709]

Thank you so much for this video!

[@doloresluce1169]

Thank you for list of plants. Very helpful. I will shop with list in hand now.

[@sussirodriguez1705]

Could you show a video on pruning fruit tress?

[@GreenThumbNurseries]

Thanks for the suggestion!

[@larrylevasseur185]

Love these - would help if you camera was closer though

[@GreenThumbNurseries]

Noted for next time, thank you Larry!

[@H.C.Q.]

Thanks for these videos. Are you cutting above the nodes? Thx

[@daviselaine17880]

Great advise! Love your videos and helps to jump start home gardeners to tidy up plants!!

[@GreenThumbNurseries]

Really glad you love them! Thanks for tuning in!

[@maryamrajaei7435]

Thank you Kathy, it was really helpful!!

[@GreenThumbNurseries]

Really glad you enjoyed it! Thanks for tuning in and for the feedback - it really helps the video reach more gardeners :)

[@susanross5197]

Great help! I'm ready to prune!

[@GreenThumbNurseries]

Love to hear this! Thanks Susan!

[@EX3535Design]

Thank you -very helpful

[@GreenThumbNurseries]

Awesome to hear that, Maura! Thanks for joining us today :)

[@veliaantila1099]

Due to the awful hot weather we hade last year, the Hydrangeas (flowers) just dried, although I watered and added new soil and fed them. They became brown and completely dried. I cut them all off.
Only horrible looking branches with a touch of budding on some of the healthy looking ones were left. I pruned a lot of smaller dead unhappy looking branches. Hope I did well and my lovely plant will survive,
too bad you had no mention on these beautiful bushes,

[@christinalw19]

I hope you have your hydrangea in a cool area, like north facing garden. I keep one in my shade garden and it has thrived for 15 years. Don’t cut it back too far. New growth blooms on old growth. I’m in Laguna hills, west side of fwy.

[@elainecarter858]

Loved this video! Would appreciate a video on pruning hydrangeas. There are so many varieties. Is pruning for them the same.
Thank you!!

[@GreenThumbNurseries]

Thanks for the suggestion and glad you appreciated the video!

[@karenheep2350]

Kathy, thanks for showing techniques for so many different plants, many which I have in my yard. I’m the one who requested this video and it was very helpful. I I think many of us are reluctant to trim enough, but this video gives me more confidence to wack away. I do have one question about plants that get very woody or leggy and don’t have any leaves or nodes except at the tip of the branch. Never sure how to prune those. I’ll ask next time I’m at the nursery. Thanks again!

[@GreenThumbNurseries]

Thank you for the suggestion and for the positive feedback!

[@julianneadamik4430]

We would love to show these videos at our garden club meetings. Is it okay to do that?

[@christinahuffman7071]

What are the pruners you are using?