You're listening to the Joe Gardner Show, the podcast all about gardening, where we cover

everything you need to know to grow like a pro, no experience required.

And now here's your guide, National Gardening Television Host, and the Joe Behind Joe Gardner,

Joe Lampel.

Hi everybody, this is Joe Lampel, the Joe Behind Joe Gardner, and welcome to the Joe Gardner

Show.

Today we're talking about one of my favorite gardening tasks, pruning.

In fact, I love it so much that I don't even really consider it a task at all.

It's more like therapy for me, working with nature to create an art form in a way.

I could, and I have, spent literally hours in a single day or weekend getting lost, and

the zen-like moments when I'm just standing there at a tree or a shrub and plotting my

next cut with my trusty pruners in hand.

I just love that.

Unfortunately though, it's a subject that tends to confound or intimidate a lot of gardeners

and understandably so, because it's counterintuitive to believe that you can actually stimulate a

plant to grow or get bigger by taking away or cutting it back.

It's like addition by subtraction.

It's crazy, and how do you get your head around that?

But it works, and that's why I'm especially excited to talk to today's guest, one of

the world's pruning greats Steve Bradley.

Steve was determined to break the sometimes confusing principles of pruning down to the

basics for the rest of us in his book, The Pruners Bible Does Just That.

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