Garden Plants
When to Prune Clematis
When and How to Prune Clematis: All Three Pruning Groups Explained Every clematis belongs to one of three pruning groups; unsurprisingly numbered…
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Garden Plants
Roses
Ramblings on roses
From a sunny yellow kitchen to a chilly winter patio, discover how one gardener brings the magic of roses right to her doorstep. Tips on choosing, planting, and supporting climbers make it easy to enjoy colour and scent all year round.
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Roses
Gardens of the Rose Courses
There’s a quiet corner of St Albans where the air is filled with the promise of roses — and where gardeners gather to learn from true masters of their craft. Led by seasoned tutors, these courses embody Ashridge – The Voice of Experience , offering insight that turns pruning into an art form.
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Hedge Plants
When to clip, trim & prune hedges?
Remove dead or diseased wood as needed, with planting advice since 1949 to guide you, and enjoy healthy, well-shaped plants all year round.
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Fruit Trees & Bushes
How to prune Cordon Fruit Trees
This is just about pruning cordons - there is a much longer piece on growing cordon fruit trees if you would like…
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Garden Plants
Trim Lavender Around Late February / March
Lavender is best given a light trim in late February or early March, before it starts into growth. Done at the right…
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Gardening
Pruning Jobs to do now: Coppicing
Requiring only a sharp saw or secateurs and the courage of your convictions, coppicing is a straightforward and satisfying winter job.This short…
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Fruit Trees & Bushes
Why Steven Edholm’s Fruit Tree Pruning Films are Better Than Ours
As a company, we have invested billions (approximately) in producing nicely edited videos about planting and pruning fruit trees Rodney, local movie…
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Garden Plants
How to Prune Wisteria
January-February is the ideal time to prune your Wisteria - have you?
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Garden Plants
Cutting Back Buddleja Bushes in Early Spring
Or: How to Record a Gardening Video Using a Potato I am sorry everyone, really. I genuinely didn't realise how bad the…
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Garden Plants
How to Prune Lavender
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Roses
Pruning & Trimming Bush Roses
Climbing roses are pruned differently, into a framework of long, ideally winding canes that cover its supports. How to Prune Rose BushesPruning…
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Roses
Pruning A Climbing Rose
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Roses
Deadhead Repeat Flowering Roses
How to Deadhead a Repeating Rose Bush, With Some Summer PruningIn this example, we are using the vigorous, repeat flowering rambler, Narrow…
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Fruit Trees & Bushes
How to Train & Prune Blackberry Bushes
Blackberry bushes are easy to cut back, this page is not here to overcomplicate things.It’s just a matter of choosing what works…
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Fruit Trees & Bushes
How to Grow Blackcurrant Bushes
How to Grow Blackcurrants BushesBlackcurrants are simple to grow, and the pruning regime is a bit different from pruning Red & Whitecurrants.…
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Fruit Trees & Bushes
Pruning Gooseberries & Red/White Currants
Gooseberry bushes are pruned almost exactly the same way as Red & Whitecurrant bushes.Pruning is so important for getting good crops of…
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Fruit Trees & Bushes
Pruning A Crab apple Tree
When to Prune Crab Apple TreesThis video demonstrates a crab apple tree, and the same principles apply to a lot of other…
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Trees
How To Pleach A Flat-Head Lime Tree
How to pleach a flat-headed Lime treePleaching trees creates a “hedge on stilts”. Many trees are suitable, and limes are ideal pleached…
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Fruit Trees & Bushes
How To Grow ‘Brown Turkey’ Figs
The most popular fig variety in the UK for getting fruit from is the ‘Brown Turkey’ fig.The instructions for ‘Brown Turkey’ apply…
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Gardening
Building Wire Supports To Grow Fruit On Walls, Fences & Posts
This post concentrates on fruiting plants, but the same principles apply to an ornamental “wall shrub”.How to start training fruit trees on…
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Fruit Trees & Bushes
Growing Cordon Fruit Trees
Cordons are compact wire trained fruit trees, usually apple or pear
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Fruit Trees & Bushes
Pruning Plum Trees In The UK
The Best Plum Tree Pruning VideosPlums are vigorous trees and respond well to pruning. If they are not pruned, they quickly get…
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Fruit Trees & Bushes
Pruning Tip Bearing Apple Trees
Most Apples are spur bearing; partial tips are like spursMost apples and pears are spur bearing: they are pruned “normally”, and are…
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Fruit Trees & Bushes
Pruning New Fruit Trees
Formative pruning of new, freestanding fruit trees, starts with either unbranched Maidens, or young Bushes or Half Standards with a further year’s…
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Hedge Plants
Trimming Country Hedge Season & Cycle
Unlike garden hedges, country hedges are typically trimmed every 2-3 years
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Fruit Trees & Bushes
Get As Many Fruit Varieties As Possible From A Small Area
Cordon apples & pears are even better suited to grafting than freestanding trees
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Trees
How to Say Coppice and Coppicing
The managed woodland is a copse (coppice), the pruning action is to coppice
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Hedge Plants
How to Trim a Garden Hedge
Trimming a Hedge Means Two Different ThingsTrimming a Mature Hedge: Cut off practically all the new growth (less than a year old),…
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Hedge Plants
Formative Pruning New Hedges
Pruning Young Hedges While Growing to Mature SizeFormative pruning of a new hedge is handled differently from trimming a mature hedge.Because you…
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Hedge Plants
Cutting A Chamfer Into Your Hedge When Trimming
An angled cut along the top corner of a hedge lets more light in
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Hedge Plants
Hedgelaying in the UK
Hedgelaying Services & Grants To hire a hedgelayer to work on your hedge, use the National Hedgelaying Society’s map. To find a…
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Hedge Plants
How to Prune Trees VS Clipping Hedges
Pruning woody plants is a big part of a gardener's life, and winter is when a lot of it gets done -…
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Hedge Plants
Cutting Back Overgrown Elderflower in a Mixed Hedge
Elderflower, Sambucus nigra, inevitably finds its way into a country hedge sooner or later, and it's far from unheard of to add…
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Hedge Plants
Trimming & Hard Pruning Yew Hedges
Best Time to Trim Yew Hedges To keep a mature yew hedge tidy with only one cut per year, the ideal time…
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Hedge Plants
Cutting Back A Pyracantha Hedge Hard
Pyracantha, like almost any broadleaf, hardwood hedge plant, can be hard pruned as needed to reduce its size and keep it tidy.…
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