Flowering Trees, Shrubs, Vines
Bougainvillea (before)
It was bushy at the bottom and branches were leaning freely. The client wants it to grow up on top of the gate. There was a small trellis that wasn’t serving the vine enough.
Bougainvillea (after)
Simplified the structure by choosing main branches and removing low, weak ones so that more of the plant’s energy would be directed upwards, and tied them to the pergola gate to train them.
Camelia (before)
The client thought it was too bushy and wanted it to look more like a tree.
Camelia (after)
I made it more airy with thinning cuts and removed lower branches to expose the trunks, but did not reduce the height since the client wanted it to grow taller.
Princess Tribuchina Trees (before)
The client likes symmetry and therefore wanted the trees to be the same height, and the branches to not get in the way of the van that parks here or the neighbor’s walkway.
Princess Tribuchina Trees (after)
Reduced the height of the right tree by ~1.5 feet so now they’re the same, and removed dead and lower branches.
Bougainvillea (before)
Most branches were growing on the ground, and many of them were weak and tangled. A few branches were loosely woven into the trellis. The client wants this vine to grow very high (2 stories up).
Bougainvillea (after)
I removed numerous weak and redundant branches. Kept the strongest ones and tied the main structural branches to the trellis to train them to grow upward.
Flowering Quince (before)
Before Pruning: the bushes were thick, tangled, and a thorny menace to people walking by on the sidewalk as well as trying to get in/out of their car. One was also bigger than the other.
Flowering Quince (after)
After Pruning: significantly thinned out and appropriately headed back away from the sidewalk and street. They look like a set. It doesn’t look pretty right now, but it will once more of the foliage grows out, and next spring when it blooms.