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Pruning Step-by-Step Guides

Keeping your plants healthy and thriving means you have to take care of them right. Pruning is an essential part of plant care. Here's how and when you need to prune different garden plants, like climbers, lavender, Buxus, roses, and conifer hedges.

How to Prune Climbing Roses

  • Step 1: Undo the trained rose.

  • Step 2: Check all branches for dead wood.

  • Step 3: Remove all the dead wood.

  • Step 4: Retain young vigorous branches.

  • Step 5: Only remove a few old branches if new (pale green) branches have grown from below.

  • Step 6: If the secateurs are not up to the job, use a tree saw.

  • Step 7: Tie on the long main branches again.

  • Step 8: The side branches are not pruned; the rose will flower on these again from June onwards.

How to Prune Lavender

  • Step 1: In order to prevent lavender from becoming woody, you need to prune it in time.

  • Step 2: This will result in as many branches at the base as possible.

  • Step 3: The main pruning occurs after the winter at the end of March.

  • Step 4: We then prune the plant back by about 1/3rd. Not to the bare part.

  • Step 5: The summer pruning occurs after flowering in August.

  • Step 6: Only cut back the dead flower stems and stem tops.

  • Step 7: The plant then has the chance to grow a little before winter comes.

  • Step 8: This means that the plant retains its compact shape. winter comes.

How to Prune Buxus?

  • Step 1: The Buxus ball has grown considerably and urgently needs to be tidied up.
  • Step 2: Place the pot at a good working height.
  • Step 3: Prune with hedge shears.
  • Step 4: Start at the bottom of the shape.
  • Step 5: Turn the shears over, to follow the ball shape carefully.
  • Step 6: Follow and trim with the shape of the ball.
  • Step 7: Trim the top last.
  • Step 8: The result is a tight ball shape.

How to Prune Conifers?

  • Step 1: Pruning twice a year gives the best result (July and September).
  • Step 2: Prune on a cloudy day, then there is less risk of the plant getting burnt by the sun.
  • Step 3: First prune the sides, working diagonally from the top to the bottom.
  • Step 4: Never prune back to the old wood, since a conifer hedge will not grow from here again (apart from Taxus).
  • Step 5: Make sure that the hedge always remains wider at the bottom than at the top.
  • Step 6: This means that the lowest branches also get enough light.
  • Step 7: Then prune the top.
  • Step 8: The second pruning takes place in September; this ensures that the hedge is tidy when winter comes.