Today’s Sidewalk Nature: new trimming guidelines from NES (Nashville Electric Service). I’m naming this particular technique “Soil to Sky.”  What happens to a tree when a “side prune” removes half the total leaf volume: an entire side from soil to sky? What happens when cuts are made in spring, right before the heat of summer? How can a tree feed itself and try to compartmentalize the wounds? How can it survive?

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