As the autumn season gets underway, there couldn’t be a better time for you to perfect your pruning skills so you can keep plants in shape and performing to their maximum potential.
In this Masterclass, you’ll discover the basic way in which trees, shrubs and fruit bushes grow and identify their stages of growth, so you'll instinctively know when and how to prune them, as well as why you prune them.
Agenda
Discover why we need to prune plants
Understand the processes by which plants grow, therefore knowing when and how to prune
Learn what the effects are of pruning in the winter's dormant season and the spring/summer growing season
Find out how to make the correct pruning cuts, include angle, tool type, direction of growth etc
Identify types of pruning: hard pruning, rejuvenation of overgrown shrubs, pruning post-flowering, and pruning of young shrubs to aid establishment
Closing with live Q&A session with David Hurrion and Lily Middleton