Most experts recommend that deciduous trees such as birch be pruned when they are totally dormant. All leaves should be off and the weather should be cold. If you wait until spring, you risk the tree ...

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M.B.: The smoke tree (Cotinus coggygria) can be pruned back hard around Valentine's Day. You can choose to cut it to within a few inches of the ground and grow it as a shrub, or choose one main shoot ...