All the trees and shrubs that I pruned the other day are beginning to put out new shoots:
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| Dogwood |
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| Dogwood - Midwinter Fire |
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| Dogwood - Cornus Alba "Aureum" |
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| Pear - Conference |
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| Pear - with ant... |
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| Apple - Scrumptious |
This one hasn't been pruned like the others, but it's bursting into leaf just like them... The purple Cotinus or "Smokebush".
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| Cotinus - Royal Purple |
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| Cotinus - Royal Purple |
The pruning has evidently had the desired effect - re-invigoration of the plants. Funny, isn't it that plants have the ability to re-generate like this, but most animals don't? Wouldn't it be convenient if when a human had to have a limb amputated it could grow a new one? [Some types of lizard, e.g. the Gecko, have the ability to jettison their tails if they are grabbed by a predator, but they can grow another later on.]
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