Manuel_59
New Member
My questions are specific to Oregon Ash. I'm not familiar with this species habits having just moved here recently.
Back in the winter of 2011-2012 we had about 15"-18" of wet concrete-like snow dumped in a short period of time in southern Puget Sound area. This really tore up the trees around here, especially the more brittle oregon ash. It looks like the Adams family haunted home site on a moon lit night around here.
We have 2 separate stands of mature oregon ash about 30'-50' tall. One with 4-6 trees. The other with 10-12 trees. They all need some TLC. Neither stand is near enough to fall on buildings, however they are near enough that we look at them daily. We'd like to prune them so they look nicer.
My question is: How do mature oregon ash react to pruning? Howz about severe pruning 1/4 to 1/3 of top? Do they rebound well?
It looks to me like severe pruning 1/4 to 1/3 of top would be more straight forward than trying to get at broken limbs only.
Back in the winter of 2011-2012 we had about 15"-18" of wet concrete-like snow dumped in a short period of time in southern Puget Sound area. This really tore up the trees around here, especially the more brittle oregon ash. It looks like the Adams family haunted home site on a moon lit night around here.
We have 2 separate stands of mature oregon ash about 30'-50' tall. One with 4-6 trees. The other with 10-12 trees. They all need some TLC. Neither stand is near enough to fall on buildings, however they are near enough that we look at them daily. We'd like to prune them so they look nicer.
My question is: How do mature oregon ash react to pruning? Howz about severe pruning 1/4 to 1/3 of top? Do they rebound well?
It looks to me like severe pruning 1/4 to 1/3 of top would be more straight forward than trying to get at broken limbs only.