Trees | Frontier Landscape Innovations

Tree Form

Vantage points from interiors benefit from good pruning practices (Hybrid SAmerican Mesquite). Photo RBond

Sometimes desert trees in unique niches permit sculptural pruning (Hybrid SAmerican Mesquite). Photo RBond

Areal Tree Work

Urban Forest Tree Care doing aerial work crown cleaning and dead wooding (Blue Palo Verde). Photo RBond

Urban Forest Tree Care, aerial work, crown reduction and dead wooding (Hybrid SAmerican Mesquite). Photo RBond

Winter foliage shows off several decades of selective pruning on an old growth Hybrid South American Mesquite. Photo RBond 2018

Ground Work

Years of carful tip pruning sustains a attractive multi trunk Blue Palo Verde. Photo Rbond 2018

ASU intern Alandon working from the ground tip pruning and light crown elevating (Velvet Mesquite). Photo RBond

Wound Wood Formation

You can tell a lot from a trees pruning wounds. Below is a collection of photographs from pruning cuts made on mesquites and palo verdes spanning an eighteen year period. The science of natural target pruning, wound wood formation and callus tissue is beyond the scope of this web site. However, to the carful observer one can get a feel how these two species of trees respond to pruning. Keeping in mind any pruning cut no matter how well executed is “a wound” to living tissue.