Title: Prune landscape plants.
Course: Landscaping I (18054-I) > Section: Maintaining the Landscape

Pruning could include

- identifying and selecting common pruning tools
- safely using, cleaning, sharpening, and storing pruning tools and other equipment
- determining the best season to prune types of plants
- explaining how woody landscape plants heal their wounds
- pruning shade trees to improve their health and safety
- pruning deciduous flowering shrubs
- pruning evergreen shrubs
- shearing a hedge or topiary
- espaliering a plant
- pruning and deadheading herbaceous perennials
- renovating an old shrub by pruning
- shearing ornamental grasses.

Process/Skill Questions:

- What tools are used for pruning woody landscape plants?
- When is the best time to prune deciduous trees?
- When is the best time to prune flowering shrubs?
- Why are woody plants pruned?
- How are herbaceous perennials and ornamental grasses pruned?