Home & Garden Gardening

How to Trim a Fruitless Evergreen Plum Tree

By Home & Garden Last updated Tuesday, July/02/2024

1). Prune your evergreen pigeon plum any time of the year when you notice dead tissue or damage, or see errant, out-of-scale growth that detracts from the natural form.
2). Inspect the tree for dead, broken, cracked or diseased branches. Cut these off back to the point of healthy woody tissue, just above a healthy lateral branch or down to the parent limb. Also, cut back any branches that touch or sweep the ground.
3). Remove any branches that are old and defoliated. Often these are in the center of the canopy due to age and lack of sunlight. Again, cut back to the parent branch, or trunk.
4). Correct out-of-scale growth by trimming back only the individual errant branches, following the natural line of the tree.