Pruning

Pruning names the garden practice of removing drift, overgrowth, or misplaced carrying without treating branch correction as root replacement.

Pruning is not punishment and not rejection of growth. It is care applied where a growth has begun to shade, overload, distort, or detach from the order that lets it carry.

Places

Pruning places the garden practice of removing drift, overgrowth, or misplaced carrying without treating branch correction as root replacement.

Holds

Pruning is held by Garden Pass, Root Resilience, and Structural Disorder. A tending pass must locate the growth, roots must remain resilient enough to withstand branch correction, and structural disorder must name the dependency loss being pruned.

Pairs

No lateral pair is required. Pruning is a care action inside Garden Pass.

Traces

• Garden Pass
• Root Resilience
• Structural Disorder

Nests

Pruning nests inside Atlas Garden wherever branch growth obscures, distorts, overloads, or detaches from what holds it.

Reads

Pruning becomes recognisable where correction removes drift or overgrowth while preserving the dependency order that lets the branch be re-entered or released.

The pruning question is:

What growth is exceeding its support?
What root, trunk, or branch is it shading?
What can be removed without losing the living trace?
What must be released because it no longer answers to what holds it?

Carries

No downstream carries are claimed yet.