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Identification and maintenance tips
Hi,
We have an increasingly large tree/plant growing just outside our front door.
I like it enormously, but I'm starting to think it's close to getting out of hand, or will be within the next 6-12 months, and am wondering about how best to cut it back. The previous home owner clearly did so, as you can see from some old branch scars.
How much should I cut this back, and where do you think the best places would be? Should I lighten it up by reducing the number of small leaf holding branches? Or do I need to get the saw out and remove the whole of the top third of the thing?
Any advice and tips very appreciated. Oh, and also - what is it?
Regards,
Andy.
We have an increasingly large tree/plant growing just outside our front door.
I like it enormously, but I'm starting to think it's close to getting out of hand, or will be within the next 6-12 months, and am wondering about how best to cut it back. The previous home owner clearly did so, as you can see from some old branch scars.
How much should I cut this back, and where do you think the best places would be? Should I lighten it up by reducing the number of small leaf holding branches? Or do I need to get the saw out and remove the whole of the top third of the thing?
Any advice and tips very appreciated. Oh, and also - what is it?
Regards,
Andy.
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Billericay - Essex
Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit.
Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.
They can be cut back virtually to the ground in Spring.
When you don't even know who's in the team
S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
No advice to give, beyond https://www.rhs.org.uk/plants/191283/tetrapanax-papyrifer-rex/details
but I think it looks great and very happy.