Advanced Pruning: Renovation Pruning for Neglected Trees in Australia

The Neglected Tree Every gardener who inherits an established property faces them — large, dense, overcrowded fruit trees or ornamentals that have not been pruned in years. The canopy is impenetrable, the centre dark and unproductive, lower branches are dying from lack of light, and the tree produces only small quantities of poor-quality fruit high in the canopy. Renovation pruning — the systematic process of opening, reducing, and restructuring such trees over several years — can transfor…