Tree services in Lespinasse, Occitanie
Pruning refers to the removal of certain branches (limbing), from a tree in order to limit or direct its growth. The term pruning is also used for ornamental arboriculture. There is a distinction between ornamental pruning, fruit pruning, and silvicultural pruning.

Pruning is also a natural biological process of abandoning branches, or sometimes part of the crown (crown descent), in order to optimize the tree’s resources and energy expenditure, a process called natural pruning2. It can be understood as a process of selection of the branches of a tree without human intervention, due to climatic events, by lack of light or water, and/or by the action of specialized saprophytic fungi.