Dennis Dillon Pruning

About Dennis Dillon Pruning

January in the valley is the pruner's month — leaves down, structure showing, the whole shape of a tree readable against a low sky. Puyallup has plenty of old wood: gnarled apple and plum left from orchard days, big-leaf maples leaning over fence lines, laurel hedges that have gotten ideas. Dennis Dillon Pruning takes them back thoughtfully, cut by cut, and keeps the lawn beneath them mowed, edged and cleared of whatever comes down. A tree pruned well never looks pruned; it looks like it grew that way. That is the whole ambition, and it makes a fine use of a wet gray Tuesday.