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This weekend I visited Sant Vicenç dels Horts, a well-known agricultural town in Baix Llobregat near Barcelona. We are in the middle of winter and during my walk I notice how the trees I came across are very well pruned.
The images that I share in La Vanguardia’s Readers’ Photos demonstrate this. The well-pruned branches point like vertical antennas towards the sky.
I remind you with these photographs that pruning is the selective felling of the parts of the tree. Its purpose is to have stronger, healthier and more attractive trees. It is done for greater safety, sanitation, aesthetics, production and quality.
The advantages of pruning are to provide benefits to the tree itself, fundamentally controlling its size, improving its appearance, the structure and “architecture” of its crown.
It also increases the passage of light and air, stimulates flowering and fruiting, as well as the value of the tree and its fruits, suppresses pest infections, among many other benefits.
We encourage you to discover the countryside. Winter has proven its beauty, which will be more spectacular with the arrival of spring much earlier than what the theory tells us that that season of the year begins in March.
