Amateur Gardening

Time to make the kindest cut

As long as it isn’t freezing outside and you can access trees and shrubs without treading on saturated soil, why not work off some of that festive food with some light pruning?

Most varieties of deciduous trees can have their annual trim now. They are dormant and unlikely to bleed

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