Tree pruning keeps the towering perennials on your property looking beautifully healthy. Pruning encourages growth and removes dying, dead, and diseased branches. It also promotes airflow, which is necessary for a tree’s health and appearance. Here are signs it’s time to schedule tree trimming.

What Do I Need to Know About Tree Pruning?

Signs It’s Time to Prune

Tree diseases and insect infestations, which leave branches withered and weak, may lead to property liability hazards. Storm damage also weakens branches. Depending on the amount of deadwood and the extent of damage from disease, insects, or a recent storm, it may be necessary to remove a tree. Removal of a diseased or infested tree is often required to prevent the spread of disease and insects to other woody perennials on your property.

Another sign it’s time to prune is a dense canopy. If you can’t see sunlight through a tree’s branches, contact a local tree service to thin them. A lack of oxygen and sunlight makes a tree vulnerable to disease. Without thinning, branches can cross and rub each other, creating misshapen branching and the conditions for damage from disease and insects.

Tree Maintenance Tips

In addition to commissioning tree pruning in the spring, summer, or winter, help your trees flourish by inspecting them once a month during the growing season and any time after a major storm. Look for deadwood, cankers, snapped branches, fungi, loose or missing bark, and deep cracks, all of which indicate decay or storm damage. Also, trees shouldn’t lean or have visible roots. If they do, consult a tree service to remedy these issues. Never request pruning or tree trimming services in the fall when spores in the air can infect open cuts.

Annual inspections by trained professionals to check for signs of weakness, disease, and insects as well as perform necessary trimming will keep your woody perennials healthy for years.

Rely on the tree maintenance experts at Putnam County Tree Service in Cookeville, TN, to protect the health and beauty of your property. Their team of professionals has over 15 years of experience and provides tree pruning, stump removal, lot clearing, cabling, and 24/7 emergency services. Call (931) 528-3828 today to schedule a free estimate, or visit them online for a full list of services.