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alfapat32pCHuTt3Balfapat32pCHuTt3B Posts: 8
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What can I do to smarten up these three bushes and Rowan 🌳 They are next to my Bird feeding station and well used  
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  • UffUff Posts: 3,199
    I'd take the lower branches off the rowan to just above the height of the wall. It will still give the birds somewhere to perch. I can't tell what the shrubs are, a closer pic would help members to give some advice, need to see the leaves and flowers. I think the one on the right is Chaenomeles and the one on the left is possibly a Philadelphus but not sure.
    SW SCOTLAND but born in Derbyshire
  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    I think the one on the extreme right is a red Weigela,  I agree with Uff about the others. 
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • alfapat32pCHuTt3Balfapat32pCHuTt3B Posts: 8
    edited June 2022
    Yes   on the right Old fashioned Wiegelia, left of that out grown Cotoneasta, sorry if spelt wrong  and to extreme left Mock Orange. Some how all need to be tamed and how and when, please.
  • AnniDAnniD Posts: 12,585
    When the Weigela has finished flowering, you can cut it back by a third.
    I think the cotoneaster can be pruned back reasonably hard, but there are several different types. This may help.
    https://www.gardenersworld.com/how-to/grow-plants/how-to-grow-cotoneaster/#:~:text=Pruning cotoneaster&text=Simply prune and reshape evergreen,or remove diseased, crossing branches.
  • alfapat32pCHuTt3Balfapat32pCHuTt3B Posts: 8
    Than you  , there are a lot of new shoots lower down on Wiegelia   so that's good,  Cotoneasta the same. THE Mock Orange is all growth high above wall, lovely white flowers at this time of year, is that right , should it be lower and bush like.It does flower well in the 5 years I have known it.
  • AnniDAnniD Posts: 12,585
    Usually you would just prune it back lightly after flowering, then next year's flowers appear on the growth it has made since.
    You can hard prune it, but it will mean that you won't get flowers next year.
  • alfapat32pCHuTt3Balfapat32pCHuTt3B Posts: 8
    AnniD said:
    Usually you would just prune it back lightly after flowering, then next year's flowers appear on the growth it has made since.
    You can hard prune it, but it will mean that you won't get flowers next year.

    Is this the mock orange you talk about.I will take a further pic to give you an idea . May be tomorrow.

  • AnniDAnniD Posts: 12,585
    Yes it is the mock orange  :) 
  • alfapat32pCHuTt3Balfapat32pCHuTt3B Posts: 8
    Ok looks like I have to bite the bullet as they say!
  • alfapat32pCHuTt3Balfapat32pCHuTt3B Posts: 8
    Trying to drop in a pic.
    Ok managed that, as you or anyone can see there is quite a void below the wall, I thinking if I can prune down to that height then I hope to bring the bush to flourish from there, am I right, please?
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