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Apr 20, Best offers for your Garden - shrubpruning.bar to Prune a Weeping Willow. Few trees can top the graceful form of a weeping willow. Apr 21, Willow trees are more durable and have a better shape if you do most of the pruning and shaping while the tree is young.

Pruning willow trees properly while they are young and easier to prune means you probably won’t have to make major changes in the tree’s structure when it is older. Sep 21, Prune low-hanging weeping willow foliage only if access to the area beneath the tree is needed. Spot-cutting around the perimeter of the tree's canopy and then trimming the in-between spaces shapes the tree more evenly than one circling pass.

When pruning weeping willows, save saddle forks and prune the weaker half of cleft forks. Nov 16, The weeping willow (Salix babylonica) is an often-planted member of the willow family, growing to a mature height of about 50 feet and producing. I prune a lot of neighborhood trees, but I've come to a small problem. Some people like their weeping willows high enough that they can walk underneath without brushing it.

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I have been doing this by hedge trimming the stems at seven feet. Now I hear that this greatly shortens the life of the tree, as compared with an unpruned tree.