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Early Spring Pruning

That forsythia. I didn’t manage to get any pictures of it last year, but I’m sure that part of the reason was because it was so… unphotogenic. Overgrown, scraggly, with weird bits poking far too far out the top of the bush.

At first, I considered asking our (former) landscapers if they could prune it. In retrospect, I’m glad I didn’t; they either would have just scalped it with power tools and called it a day, or actually done it right and cost us a fortune.

I talked in a previous post about the research I did on how to prune a forsythia, and how some say it’s best done after flowering and some say before. I opted for before, and scheduled a personal day for when I knew it wouldn’t be warm enough for the bush to have started flowering yet, but it also wasn’t supposed to snow.

Monday was the day.
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