Pruning Group 13

Wall Trained Shrubs

Climbers and wall shrubs need regular pruning in order to maintain their shape and vitality. Wall trained shrubs need pruning regularly to maintain their shape

When to prune -

• Plants that flower on the current season’s growth are often pruned in late winter or early spring.

• Or after the flowering if on this years growth

What to prune -

• Shorten side shoots to within three to four buds of the permanent framework of branches

• Dead head flower that have gone over

• Branches that are weak or spindly in order to promote stronger growth in others

• branches are diseased, damaged or dead (the three Ds).

• branches are congested or crossing each other.

• branches are growing in unwanted directions (e.g. in toward the towards the wall