A crying cherry tree ( Prunus subhirtella ' Pendula ' ) is a romanticistic garden feature in natural spring , with its drooping branch laden with showy lily-white or pink flowers . The form of the Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree is an of import part of its beauty and heedful pruning is essential to maintain its appearing . Pruning is also important for the health of the tree , along with proper watering . The crying cherry red is happy in moist , well - drained ground and full Sunday . A mature tree can be 15 to 30 feet across and 20 to 40 understructure tall .
Assessment
Step 1
determine the weeping cherry tree to see if there are any " suckers " or small branches mature at the base of the trunk .
Step 2
Examine the proboscis and branches to see if there are any watersprouts , which are branches that grow vertically and promptly from the torso or drooping branch . In a crying cherry tree diagram these vertical branches may be hold in at first by the drooping of ramification above them . These tight - growing offshoot can drain energy from the tree .
Step 3
wait at each arm to see if it is bilk and touch another branch . With its multitude of narrow branches the weeping cherry tree needs careful care to the likely problem of branches rubbing against each other and opening the bark to disease . If there are frustrate leg , pick out which will be skip .
Step 4
Note which branches have no leaf and are dead , and contrive to remove them .
Pruning
put together pruning tools based on the due date of the tree and the sizing of its branches : pruners for branches up to one - half inch in diameter , loppers for arm up to 1 1/2 inch in diam , and a pruning see for larger branches .
Cut any sucker at the base of the trunk . Be deliberate not to cut the automobile trunk itself and cut as closemouthed to the land as possible .
transfer any watersprouts completely , leaving no check stub but not make an surgical incision in the trunk or a healthy branch .
Cut aside crossing subdivision . If you are saving part of the ramification , localise the shortened one - quarter column inch above a bud . If you are pruning the offset from the trunk , turn up the branch " catch " where it connects with the proboscis , and sheer just above that .
Step 5
Prune off idle branches on the crying cherry . The tree diagram forms its own barrier to utter wood and you should not disturb that when rationalise . If the entire branch is dead , make your pruning cut just outside the raise " leash " where the branch joins the trunk . If a branch is healthy but has a dead side offset , remove the side subdivision , allow 1/4 inch of dead Grant Wood .
Tip
Prune your tears cherry after it finishes blooming , in late spring .
Warning
Do not prune within three day before a rainwater or snow storm . Water - borne bacterium or fungus kingdom can enter fresh pruning cut .
