{"id":689,"date":"2023-02-03T15:29:43","date_gmt":"2023-02-03T14:29:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/karen\/?p=689"},"modified":"2023-02-03T15:30:09","modified_gmt":"2023-02-03T14:30:09","slug":"pruning-your-willow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/karen\/pruning-your-willow\/","title":{"rendered":"Pruning your willow"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"650\" height=\"867\" src=\"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/karen\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/60\/2023\/02\/willow.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-690\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/karen\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/60\/2023\/02\/willow.jpg 650w, https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/karen\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/60\/2023\/02\/willow-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/karen\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/60\/2023\/02\/willow-520x694.jpg 520w, https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/karen\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/60\/2023\/02\/willow-320x427.jpg 320w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Willows are best pruned in the spring.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Prune your willow in early spring before the leaves start to appear.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Cut off any broken, dead, diseased, or crossing branches.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Thin out any branches that are too close together or growing in the wrong direction.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Trim any suckers that emerge from the base.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Cut any branches that are too long or unbalanced by a third of the total branch length. This will help to encourage more shoots which will create a thicker head on the plant.<br>It hard to over prune a willow as it will always grow back, as the new growth becomes 100mm long you can prune the tips of the new growth to encourage more branches.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Willows are best pruned in the spring.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":690,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gardening-notes"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Pruning your willow - Karen&#039;s Garden<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/karen\/pruning-your-willow\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Pruning your willow - 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