YOUR PRUNING MONTH
Frances Tophill shows you how to get summer-fowering shrubs back in shape ready for spring
The garden in February is a place of hope and promise of things to come, though it can still be bitterly cold. This is a month of tidying up in earnest and pruning the last of your deciduous shrubs or trees before their new leaves start to emerge
Summer-flowering shrubs that flower on the current season’s growth, like and perovskia, should be cut back now. Also cut beech and hornbeam hedging, but avoid clipping tender shrubs
