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Quick pruning question
martinjpollardx2hllQmm
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Hello everyone,
All of these were planted last year, and I'd appreciate your advice on whether to prune them this spring.
Exhibit 1: Hedge plants (from left to right: common laurel, photinia 'red robin', Olearia Macrodonta / daisy bush)
Planted last spring, already getting a move on - photinia is looking rather tall and straggly. Prune at all, or leave it until the end of the growing season?
Exhibit 2: climbing rose Mme. Alfred Carriere. Only planted out late summer.
Exhibit 3: Himalayan birch
Planted out in the summer. Has already put on an upwards spurt, but was wondering if it should be pruned as there is no outwards growth.
All of these were planted last year, and I'd appreciate your advice on whether to prune them this spring.
Exhibit 1: Hedge plants (from left to right: common laurel, photinia 'red robin', Olearia Macrodonta / daisy bush)
Planted last spring, already getting a move on - photinia is looking rather tall and straggly. Prune at all, or leave it until the end of the growing season?
Exhibit 2: climbing rose Mme. Alfred Carriere. Only planted out late summer.
Exhibit 3: Himalayan birch
Planted out in the summer. Has already put on an upwards spurt, but was wondering if it should be pruned as there is no outwards growth.
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Personally, I'd leave the other two.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
If you can get the rose stems more horizontal as they grow up it does help flowering.