Home > Nursery tree production > Year two and three

Year two and three

• Overview
• Splinting
• Codominant splinting
• Subordination
• Restoration
• Heading
• Lightly-branched trees
• Freely-branched trees
• Oaks
• Maples
• Elms

Pruning in the second year is crucial. It crafts the trunk and branch structure necessary to develop a quality canopy. Mistakes here are costly because they can be difficult to correct.

Detailed tree pruning book

• Trees
  • Urban design |
  • Site |
  • Selection |
  • Nursery |
  • Planting |
  • Pruning |
  • Health |
  • Species |
  • Roots |
  • Structure |
  • Wood |
  • Storms |
  • Arborists |
  • Plan |
  • See: Power lines
• Shrubs
  • Selection |
  • Production |
  • Maintenance |
  • Species |
  • See: Planting
• Groundcover
  • Selection |
  • Production |
  • Maintenance
• Palms
• PowerPoints
• Fact sheets
• Research papers
• Landscape designs
• Other resources
• Topic index