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YOUR PRUNING MONTH

It’s deepest winter and the garden is dormant. Pretty much all growth above ground has stopped, although recent studies have found that below the soil growth has only slowed by around 50 per cent.

Still, in the garden’s season of rest, when new, easily damaged growth is not forming, it’s the ideal time to carry out formative pruning of large shrubs and trees. The additional time off that many of us have in December and our need to get

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