Hi, I would like to cut my bay trees down quite a lot but don't know how much to take off , they block the sun in the afternoon ( not that there's any this time of year) but managing them is getting a bit difficult.
I have a large, fat culinary bay in this new garden and some new gardening friends who were here to see the "before" garden on Friday suggested I could topiarise it into a formal column or a cone or maybe cloud prune it.
Worth a go once I decide on a shape as there's no way I can just trim it by taking a few leaves when I'm making a casserole and it's definitely too big where it is and I have another so it doesn't matter if it doesn't like it.
Warren - I like the shape fo your trees but if they are too big for you I suggest you take a hedge trimmer to them and reduce them back in stages till you get the shape and size you want or you go back to thicker stems that need cutting with secateurs or loppers to get the size you want.
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Hi, I would like to cut my bay trees down quite a lot but don't know how much to take off , they block the sun in the afternoon ( not that there's any this time of year) but managing them is getting a bit difficult.
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warren
I have a large, fat culinary bay in this new garden and some new gardening friends who were here to see the "before" garden on Friday suggested I could topiarise it into a formal column or a cone or maybe cloud prune it.
Worth a go once I decide on a shape as there's no way I can just trim it by taking a few leaves when I'm making a casserole and it's definitely too big where it is and I have another so it doesn't matter if it doesn't like it.
Warren - I like the shape fo your trees but if they are too big for you I suggest you take a hedge trimmer to them and reduce them back in stages till you get the shape and size you want or you go back to thicker stems that need cutting with secateurs or loppers to get the size you want.