Pruning & shrub carein Glenmore Park

Good pruning is about timing as much as cutting. Prune a grevillea before it flowers and you lose the flowers; leave a rose untouched for a year and it turns into a tangle of thin canes. We prune each plant at the time of year that suits it, to the shape that keeps it healthy.

We prune roses, natives, flowering shrubs, fruit trees, and small trees up to about four metres from the ground. Larger trees, or any job near power lines, we pass to a qualified arborist, and we will tell you when a tree may need council approval before it is cut.

Natives such as grevillea, callistemon and westringia do well in Glenmore Park's clay and heat, but they go woody and leggy without a light trim after each flowering. Roses are pruned late June to July, and frost-tender plants are left until the last cold snap has passed in late August.

When and how often

Roses and deciduous trees in July. Natives straight after flowering. Citrus lightly after fruiting. Flowering shrubs once the blooms finish.