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RHUS TYPHINA

chetcheethamchetcheetham Posts: 6
in Problem solving
How and when should I prune this please

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  • nutcutletnutcutlet Posts: 27,445
    don't, it will start it suckering


    In the sticks near Peterborough
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    Did you lose your post from yesterday?

    https://forum.gardenersworld.com/discussion/1025263/rhus-typhina#latest

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    Don't prune it.  Let it grow to its natural shape which is particular to this tree and, as Dove says, you'l provoke it into suckering and will wish you'd never planted it.

    Leave it alone, talk to it nicely and, maybe, give it a feed to compensate for all the previous hacking.
    Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
    "The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
    Plato
  • chetcheethamchetcheetham Posts: 6
    Many thanks
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