Care Advice
Pruning Tips
Pruning is one of the most misunderstood and feared subjects in gardening. In practice, though, there is little to worry about. Few plants will be killed by cutting bits off - it's more likely they will grow even stronger. Here's how to go about it.
Time to complete job: Variable
Approximate budget: Negligible
You will need:
- Secateurs
- Long-handled pruners
- Pruning saw
- Leather gardening gloves
- Methylated spirits
Plants grown for their foliage or bark, such as Cornus, produce a better display from new growth. Both these can be cut hard back each spring. It may be possible to propagate cuttings from the pruned stems; for more on this see Propagation.
Your Comments
- Fozzie999 wrote on 13 Apr 2005 at 04:12 PM
These will normally flower between Apr - June on short shoots produced the prev summer. On mature plants the pruning would consist of cutting out all flowered stems to 1 or 2 buds (2 or 3 inches) of the framework as soon as flowering stops. If its the first year or second year then the pruning should have been completed in Jan/Feb to Build a framework for future growth and flowering by pruning back previous growth by approx one half and train into position required. Hope this helps. There is a clem expert on the bbc boards under the name of PLOCKET who has more knowledge re clems. Foz
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