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Article: The kindest cut; Shrubs are growing like wildfire, so keep them under control with a quick prune.
- Article from:
- The Evening Standard (London, England)
- Article date:
- May 9, 2001
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Byline: GRAHAM RICE
WE ALL want two things from our shrubs: they must flower like mad and not get so big that they take over the garden. Pruning is the answer to both these requirements. A couple of weeks ago, I was driving west from New York towards the Delaware river, admiring the spectacular forsythia planted on the roadside. These neat plants were a mass of densely clustered shoots, each packed with brilliant yellow flowers.
Forsythia is pruned in the simplest way: after flowering it should be ruthlessly sheared back with a trimmer, and that's it.
The result is new growth, which, in the poor roadside soil, does not grow lank but stays ...