I do a lot of pruning out in the edible garden, I do it with my ornamentals with my roses

for sure I'm actually about to go do that sometime this week.

But I haven't thought about it much in the world of houseplants, I suppose I'll take

cuttings if that counts Kelly but when you're talking about pruning you know as a stylist

and a plant consultant I'm assuming you're kind of thinking about it from more than just

the angle of taking cuttings.

Yeah I mean cuttings for sure count but I would say 99% of my clients do not prune their

plants I think this is a tough thing for a lot of people I don't know why I don't know

if it's maybe fear like they just don't want to screw it up they don't want to harm the

plant I think part of it maybe comes from when you prune you almost feel like you're going

backwards maybe at times but pruning not only is good for your plants a lot of the time

and at least half the plants it can promote branching, bushier plants a better aesthetic

like I go to a lot of clients houses and the plant that they have they haven't pruned

in like let's say 5, 6, 10 years and it's just it's grown on its own schedule at this

point so the thing is with pruning is the earlier you can kind of get into the habit

of pruning your plants the better it's going to be because once you know those stem

certain plants like let's say a fiddly fig once that's that main stem gets quite thick

it is much harder to like prune it back and it to keep an aesthetically pleasing you know

look to it.

When you're so like let's let's talk about that though so like when you're getting

a new plant for a client and it's it's not tiny it's like a four inch pot yeah how

are you pruning it over the course of of a year and obviously this is different based

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