| More compact plants result when long branches are pruned back to their junction at a lateral branch during early spring. |
| If a fruit-bearing tree or plant is not pruned or pinched off, it produces more leaves and branches and less fruit. |
| Although they are largely pruned with secateurs, the pompoms grow all the more densely when pruned mechanically with shears. |
| They also pruned tree crowns, removed dead limbs, conditioned the soil, and mulched tree bases. |
| Plants such as fucshias should be pruned back fairly hard now or at least before new side shoots become established. |
| The remaining branches can be pruned hard back in early spring when the new shoots begin to show. |
