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we bought our house 5 years ago and inherited a somewhat overgrown garden. I spent the 1st year trying to get some of the large bushes tamed and then followed 2 have 2 kids so I haven’t done much more than try and get ontop of the ever reoccurring brambles!
anyway I’ve got back out ther loppers in hand this year and have cut down quite low a choysia and Japanese quince. But I’m now trying to decide what to do with this yellow bush Jasmine. All I’ve done is lightly prune it over the years but it quite massive now, comes out about 5ft from the stem and about 3 of that is over the lawn. I’ve cut off some of the ground level branches but as you can see it’s alot of long muddled stems all growing forward searching for light. Hopefully cutting the choysia will help give more light.
how would you recommend I overhaul this bush as I do love it. Hard prune to near ground level of more of a lighter prune keeping to the green?
I have a few trees and a north facing garden, so while it gets a lot of sun in the summer is all the plant grow forward trying to get more light, as you can see with the jasmine and this pheasant berry plant, I’ve seen these nice and bush in other gardens rather than leggy forward facing. Anything you could recommend that would grow well in clay and not getting a lot of all day sun? I’ve not made much of a mark here, digging is hard when rhe soils dry and there are so many roots and rubble too!
Thanks, Amy
Hi Lee,
we bought our house 5 years ago and inherited a somewhat overgrown garden. I spent the 1st year trying to get some of the large bushes tamed and then followed 2 have 2 kids so I haven’t done much more than try and get ontop of the ever reoccurring brambles!
anyway I’ve got back out ther loppers in hand this year and have cut down quite low a choysia and Japanese quince. But I’m now trying to decide what to do with this yellow bush Jasmine. All I’ve done is lightly prune it over the years but it quite massive now, comes out about 5ft from the stem and about 3 of that is over the lawn. I’ve cut off some of the ground level branches but as you can see it’s alot of long muddled stems all growing forward searching for light. Hopefully cutting the choysia will help give more light.
how would you recommend I overhaul this bush as I do love it. Hard prune to near ground level of more of a lighter prune keeping to the green?
I have a few trees and a north facing garden, so while it gets a lot of sun in the summer is all the plant grow forward trying to get more light, as you can see with the jasmine and this pheasant berry plant, I’ve seen these nice and bush in other gardens rather than leggy forward facing. Anything you could recommend that would grow well in clay and not getting a lot of all day sun? I’ve not made much of a mark here, digging is hard when rhe soils dry and there are so many roots and rubble too!
Thanks for your question, could you upload some pics please so we can see the shrubs and plans in question. You can resize them here if they are over 3mb.
Thanks for your question, could you upload some pics please so we can see the shrubs and plans in question. You can resize them here if they are over 3mb.
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