https://treecaretips.org/why-do-branches-fall-in-your-yard/slider/ TCIA providing homeowners with information on caring for trees and landscapes. Wed, 23 Mar 2022 00:51:08 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 https://treecaretips.org/why-do-branches-fall-in-your-yard/slider/#comment-20845 Wed, 23 Mar 2022 00:51:08 +0000 https://treecaretips.org/?p=2283#comment-20845 Bradford Pear are also notorious for many unions with included bark, and can be counted on for numerous failures after every storm. We completed a pruning project at a local shopping center with 30+ Bradfords about 18 months ago, and were able to convince the property management company to let us take a structural pruning approach to their trees instead of the “hat rack” treatment they wanted. We reduced the crowns and accomplished significant end-weight reduction, while maintaining good laterals and staying within 30% of foliage removed. Fast forward to today, and there hasn’t been a single failure in any of the trees that we pruned. Our regular grocery store is in this shopping center, and it always makes me proud to know we were able to make terrible trees beautiful and viable.

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