Can you prune Thuja Orientalis Aurea Nana
By Homestead
United Kingdom
We have a mature Thuja which is beginning to crowd out other plants and we would like to reshape it or at least take off a few leaves without spoiling the tree
- 19 Aug, 2009
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Assuming your Platycladus(Thuja) orientalis Aurea 'Nana' still has its lovely rounded oval shape, then any removal of branches is likely to spoil the look completely. As bamboo says give it a light clip over every year in spring or early summer to keep it in check. As this plant is very slow growing, a twenty year specimen would only be about 5 feet high x three feet wide, I'm surprised it's getting to big for its location
20 Aug, 2009
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You can clip this back a bit and remove one or two branches if necessary - best done in the spring for the overall clipping, but you could remove a couple of branches in the autumn rather than now, preferably nearer the end of September.
19 Aug, 2009