We have moved to a new house with a rather overgrown garden. We are novice gardeners and with help we have identified most of the plants. Here are a few that are still to be nailed down. Can you help?
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The skimmia is a monster. I have had skimmia before but relatively small plants, minuscule in comparison. I've only pruned them when they got out of shape. Do you know if this giant can be hard pruned? To perhaps half its size. I’m guessing that it will kill it.
Thanks for response, The beech hedge (which itself a monster) behind the intimidating skimmia is to be reduced early next month so I'll hold off on the skimmia until spring. Would you be able to tell me by how severely I could hack it back?
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1 skimmia
2 might be berberis Thun. Atro Nana not too clear from the photo
3 Weigela
4 lily of the valley.
WOW! Four minutes and a reply. Thank you very much.
The skimmia is a monster. I have had skimmia before but relatively small plants, minuscule in comparison. I've only pruned them when they got out of shape. Do you know if this giant can be hard pruned? To perhaps half its size. I’m guessing that it will kill it.
Once again thanks for the reply.
@ Hostafan1
"2 might be berberis Thun. Atro Nana not too clear from the photo"
Is this better?
@Verdun
Thanks for response, The beech hedge (which itself a monster) behind the intimidating skimmia is to be reduced early next month so I'll hold off on the skimmia until spring. Would you be able to tell me by how severely I could hack it back?
Cheers.
You'll have a nice patch of hellebores under the Berberis
Magical hellebore heaven in our overgrow patch Lesley.
Thanks Verdun.
The beech is a monster, three metres deep, three metres high and over is seventy metres long. Certain a job for men with better vertebrae than I have!
I was asking more about how severely I could hack the skimmia back?