Cloud pruning

If the idea of cloud pruning is lost on you, we are here with six incredible tips on how to cloud prune boxwoods. Keep following our guide!

Cloud Pruned Trees Gallery – Valley Plants

Cloud pruning of trees and conifers makes them look like floating clouds. The practice comes from Japanese gardens. This method is easy & looks incredible!

Warning - this article is not for the faint-hearted....*laughs* Have you ever admired those complicated cloud-pruned conifers? You know the sort of thing... They cost a lot of money (the above one is 2'/60cm high) because they take a long, long time to train and prune. Here's another specimen: Check out the price - ten thousand pounds!!! OK it's 230cm high (I can't work that out in my head but it must be about 10' tall) but still, that is an awful lot of money. Both of these are Bonsai…

Sophie meets a topiary and cloud pruning specialist to see how he transforms humble shrubs into living works of art.

Taking in inspirational pruning from around the world, whether it be horticultural, agricultural or even accidental

Better Homes and Gardens landscape designer Charlie Albone will show how us to cloud prune, also known as the Japanese art form niwaki. In this form, the trees are cut to resemble clouds or depict the distilled essence of the tree.

Lest there be any misconception, the beginner is me. So if you are in need of expert advice, this is probably not the place to linger. Cloud pruning is highly fashionable at the moment, but not bei…

Japanese gardens are miniature worlds of abstract shapes–rocks, gravel, and cloud pruning–that represent the larger landscape of nature. 10 ideas to steal:

We can't get enough of cloud-pruned trees – they are at once frivolous, fun and ultra-sophisticated.