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15 postsBypass secateurs, geared loppers, a pull saw and a pole pruner: what pruning really needs, where the cut belongs on the branch collar, how heavy limbs come down in three cuts, and why the wound sealant stays on the shelf.
Bypass for living wood, anvil for dead: why the design decides how the wound heals. Plus geared or ratchet loppers, hedge shears by hand or by motor, the right size for your hand, and the care that keeps a pair going for twenty years.
Sage is an undemanding Mediterranean subshrub. With the right spot and a firm spring cut, one plant carries you through the kitchen for many years.
Wisteria only flowers lavishly with two cuts a year. Here is how to shorten the whip shoots in high summer and free the flowering wood in late winter.
Without pruning, lavender falls apart after a few years. With two simple cuts a year it stays dense, compact and flowers more lavishly summer after summer.
Thyme is easy once you understand where it comes from: sun, poor soil, little water. The way you prune it decides whether it lasts ten years or goes bald.
Roses are pruned differently by type: bedding roses hard back, shrub and climbing roses only thinned. The signal is the forsythia bloom.
Rosemary rarely freezes to death, it rots in wet cold. How to overwinter it cool and bright, prune it right without cutting into old wood and choose hardy varieties.
Thornless blackberry varieties turn the feared bramble into an easy-care nibbling plant. With the simple two-sides rule on the trellis you keep the pruning effortlessly in hand. Here is how to train them and how to spot the right harvest moment.
