Our backyard hedge is quite unruly at the moment, so it needs to be
pruned. It’s too bushy, and also the wrong shape in some places. Here’s
a page that has some ideas on pruning hedges. It notes that you need to
know what sort of hedge you have in order to know when to prune it. I
think ours flowers in the spring, since I didn’t notice any large numbers
of flowers by the time we moved in last year.
Here’s
another page with information on when to prune, and a picture of a very
trimmed back hedge.
This
page has a lot of information, and a very informative picture (fig. 9)
that shows the difference between good pruning and bad pruning of an
overgrown shrub. Based on this picture, our shrub has suffered from a lot
of bad pruning.
posted at 16:04 on Mon, 13 Mar, 2006 |
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