"Pruning a tree is the selective removal of branches to improve its structure, encourage healthy growth, and keep it safe."
Identifying and removing weak and dying branches; removing limbs compromising the tree's strength and stability; abolishing offshoots troubled by decay and disease.
To care for trees in this way supports their vigor, beauty, and yield.
Untended, a tree's fruits are imperiled both in quantity and quality; denied its fullest expression and potential.
The pruning process of the citrus on our homestead commences in spring. Preparing these fruit bearers for winter's work is of vital importance to their cyclic health.
Spring's course spawns degrees of stress and provocation to the verdure albeit a necessary and productive struggle. Providing extra hydration, nutrients and prudence a must.
Reflecting back over the past year, I now recognize the deep pruning process that began taking place and materializing in our life.
A deep cleanse of the dead and decaying limbs that were causing psychological peril and destruction. A removal of weakened branches and diseased offshoots compromising safety and stability.
A most painful process of loss and mislay.
Saving and reviving the soul's root system, preserving and promoting its potential, required calling upon and surrendering to professionals of the highest escalon.
Alas, a most welcomed winter approaches. The lemon tree fit, trim and brimming with yellow; oranges and grapefruits perfected; tangerines making the comeback of a life time.
My surviving son is flourishing and blossoming more expansively than ever before imagined. The 'pruning' process's agonizing affairs over this year's past have leant way to powerful new growth, dynamic and diverse blossoms and fruits, and an unshakeable resolve.
Winter is coming; and it is welcomed.
Comments