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Choisya pruning.

lojsbacnXLjd7rulojsbacnXLjd7ru Posts: 2
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This is how our gardeners have pruned our choisya and I was wondering if this looks like a good job? 

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  • BobTheGardenerBobTheGardener Posts: 11,385
    Erm.. no, it's a hatchet job;  No gardener would have pruned it like that, only an untrained and unsupervised labourer.
    Luckily, they can take almost any amount of pruning, so I would be tempted to:
    1. Change your gardeners
    2. Cut the rest of it back hard to about 30cm from the ground.  It will grow back as a nice bush.
    A trowel in the hand is worth a thousand lost under a bush.
  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 55,117
    That's a shocker  :/
    However, as @BobTheGardener says, they're tough, and cutting it all back to a reasonable shape will be better, and it will recover. 
    It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....



    I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
  • lojsbacnXLjd7rulojsbacnXLjd7ru Posts: 2
    Thank you for the comments very much appreciated 
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