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Apr 20, Best offers for your Garden - treeremove.bar to Prune a Weeping Willow. Few trees can top the graceful form of a weeping willow. If you plant a new weeping willow tree, don't prune it at planting time, except to remove any damaged branches.

Give the tree a season to put out a strong new root. Apr 21, Pruning a Mature Tree. Mature willow trees don’t need a lot of pruning. The tree will heal faster with fewer disease problems if you remove broken branches and those that rub against each other. If you shorten the branches, always cut just beyond a leaf bud or twig. Don’t allow branches to grow on the lower part of the tree. If you catch new growth soon enough, you can stop it by pinching it.

Apr 12, Weeping pussy willow trees rarely require drastic pruning. Each spring after the catkins fade the tree should have any dead branches removed. Older branches benefit from having the first third of the branch removed. Remove any crossing limbs, deformed limbs or stray young treeremove.bars: 2. Prune away up to one third of the largest branches to reduce the spread and density of the canopy, if desired.

Cut back branches at an angle.

Choose branches, evenly distributed in the canopy, that are the thickest in diameter and the longest. Sever each down to the crown just cm (1 inch) or.