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Tending Your Garden
Prune Plants to Prevent Shading
The following pages offer several pruning methods
to prevent shading for a variety of flower types.
Plants with Branching Leaves
To optimize the growth of your Garden and ensure
strong plants with bountiful flowers, prune large
leaves that shade other plants in your Garden.
• Remove large leaves
or branches with
scissors.
• Prune where leaf
or branch meets
another stem.
Photo at right shows how
plant might look after
pruning larger leaves.
Notice that the Mimulus
is no longer shaded.
Marigold leaf shading
smaller Mimulus.
K
eep Your Garden Healthy
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