Assertion: severe pruning | /r/HasProperty | necessary
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text: but if you wait too long, the severe pruning that may be necessary can be a death knell.
text: With older plants severe pruning may be needed to remove old, worn-out growths, or branches growing over windows or protruding outwards from the face of the building.
text: Where severe pruning is necessary, spruce will recover from cuts back as far as two-year-old wood.