Our Garden Talk - The Biological Logic of Pruning - OG 2026
Venue
Our Garden Demonstration Garden
Southwest corner of North Wiget Lane and Shadelands Drive, just north of Ygnacio Valley Road
Walnut Creek, CA
United States
Event Type
Meetings
This is an in-person event
No registration required.
An Ask the Master Gardener (AAMG) table will be available to answer all your gardening questions and provide expert gardening advice.
About the Event
Pruning is far more than just “giving a plant a haircut." Hair is dead tissue, but a branch is a living system. When you cut your hair, it regrows from the base. When you cut a branch, you aren’t just shortening it; you're performing “surgery” that unleashes a hormone response near the end of the cut that redirects the new growth. Understanding the branch response allows you to manipulate tree structure, health, and productivity. Proper pruning cuts produce a healthy tree. Bad cuts can result in unstable new growth, disease, decay, and premature tree death.
Presented by UC Master Gardener Dorothy Abeyta