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Pruning help

14 years ago

I have a dogwood in my front yard with a medusa-like branch area. I'm not sure which branches to prune. I'm thinking it's likely that three branches will go but would like some more opinions on which three and if it should be more or less. The medusa area is circled in red in the photos below. I tried to take a photo of the tree overall and then a few angles of the problem area.

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