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Paul’s Himalayan Musk - What to do?!
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We share a truly magnificent rambler with our next door neighbours, which for the last 30 years has grown into an ash tree. The tree is still alive and we maintain some of the growth so it doesn’t die, so all well there.
However, the rose has now got so big, growing on top of lots of old wood. We do try to pull some of the dead branches out from inside it and keep it at just above head height so it doesn’t bit you every time you walk past it!
Looking for advice really on what to do with it to reduce its size. Do we take back all the leaders from the outside that stick out (they will eventually drop down), or do we radically prune back hard and maybe reduce the height of the ash underneath? It would probably stop a year or twos flowering, but has anyone got any experience of pruning such a huge specimen? There’s actually two plants as when planted 30 years ago or so, it was thought one had died so another put another in on opposite side of tree.
Many thanks
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