Specialty Gardening: Ficus Fotos For Prune-o-Fobes, 0 by tapla

tapla wrote:
This is a photo of the tree as it looked yesterday on my bench. I should have removed the twine on it before the photo - sorry. I had used the tree to illustrate trunk-chop techniques in a talk for a local club and had transported the tree in the back of an open pick-up, thus the twine. I had actually reduced the top of the tree earlier in the summer, but you can see it's a little top-heavy and needs it again.

I offered the photos to illustrate that most Ficus can be pruned very hard with excellent results with some attention to the state of the tree's health and seasonal timing.

Al