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Gardening Calendar
Gardening Calendar
JANUARY
January is when climbers, shrubs and trees are leafless and in their dormant period and one of the best gardening months for pruning any garden subjects that could cause problems during winter storms and high winds. Wisteria is a good example of a climber that can be pruned now. After flowering the previous season and given a summer pruning it produces long wispy new growths that need to be controlled by cutting back. Either summer or winter pruning and whichever plant or shrub you are pruning the first step is to remove any dead or damaged branches.
JANUARY
January is when climbers, shrubs and trees are leafless and in their dormant period and one of the best gardening months for pruning any garden subjects that could cause problems during winter storms and high winds. Wisteria is a good example of a climber that can be pruned now. After flowering the previous season and given a summer pruning it produces long wispy new growths that need to be controlled by cutting back. Either summer or winter pruning and whichever plant or shrub you are pruning the first step is to remove any dead or damaged branches.
JANUARY
January is when climbers, shrubs and trees are leafless and in their dormant period and one of the best gardening months for pruning any garden subjects that could cause problems during winter storms and high winds. Wisteria is a good example of a climber that can be pruned now. After flowering the previous season and given a summer pruning it produces long wispy new growths that need to be controlled by cutting back. Either summer or winter pruning and whichever plant or shrub you are pruning the first step is to remove any dead or damaged branches.
September
As autumn is fast approaching, now is the time to think of an autumn clean up. There is still time to continue with any unfinished jobs from August. Plus it’s the ideal time to prune late summer-flowering shrubs which will keep them healthy and floriferous. You can prune now for example honeysuckle, birch, hornbeam, lavender, hydrangeas and box.
Pruning birch - Betula
Pruning cherry laurel - Prunus laurocerasus
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Pruning Evergreen Clematis - Clematis Vitalba
Pruning ivy - Hedera helix
Pruning privet - Ligustrum
Pruning blackcurrant - Ribes nigrum
Pruning climbing hydrangea - Hydrangea anomala
Pruning flowering cherry
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Pruning lavendar
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Pruning roses
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Pruning bottlebrush buckeye - Aesculus parviflora
Pruning common beech - Fagus sylvatica
Pruning hawthorn - Crataegus Persimilis
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Lawson's cypress - Chamaecyparis Lawsoniana
Pruning wisteria
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Pruning Box - Buxus Sempervirens
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Pruning common hornbeam - Carpinus betulus
Common Hydrangea - Hydrangea macrophylla
Pruning Leyland cypress - Leylandii
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Pruning yew - Taxus baccata
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