Before and After Pruning Espalier - Greenspire Linden Trees - Dormant Pruning - March 2025
The two Greenspire Linden Trees in our backyard that are trained into a horizontal cordon espalier are one of my garden success stories. I planted them back in 2017 and over the years, they've filled out with (now) four distinct sets of branches in the espalier.
I showed these trees in their naked form six weeks ago (early January) in this post about the Green Velvet Boxwoods that are planted at their feet. The four "levels" are clear, but the top has gone totally wild.
Here's a post from late December that shows the top-growth on both of the Lindens.
I've been pretty light-touch on pruning these the past few seasons; mostly shortening branches and taking off tips vs. hard-pruning limbs right off. But, the 'wild top' of this thing is calling for a more heavy-hand with pruning. I busted out the lopers and my hand pruners and started to go at them.
Below, you can see both trees. The tree on the left has just about one-foot of the top cleared-out. I pruned them back to about four-to-six-inches.
I'm holding my breath on this - because I really pushed it with the amount of pruning. *Fingers crossed*.
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