Test Your Pruning IQ: Before losing another limb, take this quiz to see what you're doing right and what you're doing wrong

摘要

Pruning ornamental trees and shrubs would be much easier if you could fix your mistakes. Unfortunately, no matter how much duct tape or superglue you use, you can't put a branch back on once you've cut it off. This fact explains how pruning, like anyirreversible act, inspires trepidation rather than confidence. Gardeners need not have such a dubious reaction to such a common, necessary chore. Pruning is much easier to understand than the intricacies of rocket science or quantum physics. As a professor of forestry, questions about the how, where, what, and why about cutting a woody plant seem to come my way with the regularity of junk mail.