Pruning a Tanyosho Pine?

Herb · Post by **Herb** » Aug 06, 2006 8:47 pm

I know next to nothing about pruning Pines. I've read that you can prune Japanese Black Pines in any way you like, but I can't find anything about how pruning affects Tanyosho Pines.

Has anybody any advice about this? We have one that's started to grow quite vigorously, but it's quite dense & I feel it might take on more character if I pruned out a few of the branches. Here's what it looks like at present -

George Nesfield · Post by **George Nesfield** » Aug 07, 2006 3:12 pm

Hi Herb,
With that thickish trunk you can certainly do something with it ,I would get into it and sort out the branches, if you can get a photo on actually showing exactly where the branches are we can maybe do a bit of judicious prunning, as my bottom line says anyone who never made a mistake never made anything.
George.

Herb · Post by **Herb** » Aug 07, 2006 10:24 pm

Hi George,

I soon found, after I stuck my arm in it to see which branch was which, that 'densiflora' (assuming it means 'really densely foliaged') describes Tanyosho Pines very accurately.

The only way I could get a picture that showed much of the branch structure was to remove a lot of the growth, especially small growth & branches on the inside that were crossing and overlapping - so I did.

Here's the result. Do you think it's on the right lines? I hope I didn't overdo it.

Herb

George Nesfield · Post by **George Nesfield** » Aug 09, 2006 5:53 pm

Hi Bert,
Thats looking better allready ,now take those three little spindly branches off at the bottom. and we will go on from their.
George.

Herb · Post by **Herb** » Aug 09, 2006 9:11 pm

Thanks George. I'll get down to it when I'm able. (Had a hernia operation yesterday & have been instructed to do no gardening for at least a month.....)

Cheers,

Herb

George Nesfield · Post by **George Nesfield** » Aug 10, 2006 3:15 pm

Hi Bert,
Look after yourself .
George.

Herb · Post by **Herb** » Aug 14, 2006 2:03 pm

George,

I've removed the spindly little branches. (Discovered that when they said 'no gardening' they meant 'no heavy lifting'.)

Here's how it looks now - your advice was spot on. As the next step, I think I'll try to make the ground round the Tanyosho tidier & make the circle of fallen needles a bit bigger.

Bert

George Nesfield · Post by **George Nesfield** » Aug 14, 2006 3:34 pm

hi Bert,
It is hard to see from the photo but can you get in and thin out some of the needles to give your pine some branches, how about wiring some of the bottom branches straight (The idea is to make it look like a tree not a shrub ) which it does at the moment.
George