Now, if I can only keep the deer off them.
Prune your purple leaf plum annually to encourage the growth of new flowering wood. The best time to prune is after your purple leaf plum has finished blooming for the season, in late spring to early summer. Step 1 Examine your purple leaf plum tree for dead, diseased or damaged branches. Sep 21, Purple-leaf plum trees are easy to grow spring flowering trees, valuable for their purplish pink flowers that contrast with the dark bark of the branches. If you prune before blossoming, you'll lose some buds, but since purple leaf plums flower so prolifically, you may not notice the loss.
Apr 13, When you prune a plum tree depends, in part, on the stage of development of the tree. For young trees that you are in the process of shaping, do just one pruning in early shrublop.clubted Reading Time: 8 mins. Oct 27, Pruning your plum tree step-by-step. While winter pruning is recommended for many fruit trees, you will find that plum trees are best pruned in late summer/early fall. Apple trees are among the easiest, and most forgiving, trees to prune, but plums are just as shrublop.clubted Reading Time: 7 mins.
Jun 08, Prune when the buds are just bursting, or when the tree is just beginning to flower. Established plum trees that are more than three years old can be pruned in summer, from mid-June onwards. Again, the aim is to keep the tree a manageable size and shape, while allowing the fruit to ripen. Prune to create an open, wine glass shape.