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Pearl bush

laurajukFN-5HIKFlaurajukFN-5HIKF Posts: 10
in Problem solving
I’ve just moved to a new house and there are a number of shrubs which are rather overgrown. There’s this pearl bush which had spectacular flowers earlier in the year. However it’s huge. It’s been trailed up a trellis but this is struggling to hold it up now. It’s about 2.5m high 3m wide and 1m deep. I know it doesn’t like hard pruning so am wondering what to do. Any advice? Thanks 

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  • hatty123hatty123 Posts: 125
    I think I've got same as you, Exochorda x macrantha? Mine's been trained to grow into a multi-stemmed tree, absolutely beautiful but I can't take credit as it was already in the garden when I bought the house.
    I had to prune fairly hard last year to keep it in shape and it survived no problem. I took about a quarter of the growth off, some places a little more or less to get it in shape. I cut some stems right back to the main "trunk" and I've already had to cut some new ones off this year so it seems a pretty tough plant to me. Presuming yours has finished flowering then you can prune now, if you're a bit worried about overdoing it then you could do it in stages to check how it's coping.
  • laurajukFN-5HIKFlaurajukFN-5HIKF Posts: 10
    Thanks. Yes decided to give a trim and take some branches back more with the aim of doing the others over the next couple of years. Fingers crossed. Wasn’t quite sure which exochorda it was 
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