"We're not the fashion police, but people need to know that shearing everthing in sight is considered bad taste," exclaimed Cass Turnbull recently over tea at Swansons Nursery. I was interviewing Cass for a story on PlantAmnesty's Shear Madness campaign. Cass points out that such non-discriminating, all-over pruning creates an ugly maintenance nightmare of watersprouts and die back...but that story will run in Pacific Northwest magazine in the Seattle Times in January.
In the meantime, in the hopes of inspiring gardeners into pruning to enhance, rather than destroy, the natural shape of their trees and shrubs, Plant Amnesty is sharing some of their horrifying photos with Plant Talk....
In the spirit of city beautification, if you'd like to call out any such pruning atrocities around your neighborhood, send me a photo at valeaston@comcast.net, and I'll post it here and send it along to Cass....thanks....
Just think... "Leschi Lollipops" and "Yikes we're Naked!" used to be living, growing, beautiful plants, before they were mal-pruned into distressed objects....
Wow i really like these pictures, I like most that second picture of naked tree. You are right the spirit of city beautification its really cool.
Posted by: elderly parents | November 15, 2010 at 10:24 PM
Wow This is the place to learn about what fruit grows and ripens best in our climate.I like these garden pictures.
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