Garden Notes
Apical Dominance

When plants grow, apical dominance keeps all the branches from being the main trunk. Joellen Dimond, Director of Landscape at the University of Memphis, shows how a single pruning cut several years ago broke the apical dominance of a branch on a shrub allowing lateral growth from side shoots.

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How to Prune Shrubs
Reducing the Height of a Shrub

Related Resources:
How Woody Plants Grow
Basic Principles of Pruning Woody Plants