{"id":2779,"date":"2012-02-01T12:00:03","date_gmt":"2012-02-01T17:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/?p=2779"},"modified":"2012-02-14T19:34:38","modified_gmt":"2012-02-15T00:34:38","slug":"formerly-a-tree-now-a-hat-rack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/2012\/02\/01\/formerly-a-tree-now-a-hat-rack\/","title":{"rendered":"Formerly A Tree… Now A Hat Rack"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Former Maple Tree after Bad Pruning<\/p><\/div>\n

Tree topping continues! The concern about a large tree falling on the house, garage,\u00a0autos or pedestrians sends out calls to cut the tree back. If the tree in photo does recover (grow), the new branches will be mostly weak suckers. After 2-3 years, the sucker growth will be susceptible to high winds and snow\/ice storms than if the original tree had been left alone or pruned correctly.<\/p>\n

The proper pruning job does cost more\u00a0money than a “butcher job” in photo. This is because the tree pruner is more highly skilled. The shade tree will enjoy a longer life and keep your summer air conditioning bills lower. Also, average people do<\/p>\n

Leading reasons why homeowners butcher their trees:<\/p>\n

1. My neighbor did it first<\/p>\n

2. Tree was blocking signage to my business<\/p>\n

3. Didn’t know that it was the wrong practice<\/p>\n

4. Unlicensed tree pruner said it was the right thing to do.<\/p>\n

To avoid this problem, select small to medium sized maturing trees such as redbuds, dogwoods, crabapples, hawthorns, Japanese maples, trident maple, and lacebark elm.<\/p>\n

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Tree topping continues! The concern about a large tree falling on the house, garage,\u00a0autos or pedestrians sends out calls to cut the tree back. If the tree in photo does recover (grow), the new branches will be mostly weak suckers. After 2-3 years, the sucker growth will be susceptible to high winds and snow\/ice storms […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[844,857,153,856,616,601,703,630,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2779"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2779"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2779\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2790,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2779\/revisions\/2790"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}