When to prune, when to leave well alone, and how to keep hedges and trees healthy through the East Sussex year.
September to February is the proper window for major hedge work in the UK. Between March and August you're into nesting season and the law. The species rules, what we do if we find a nest mid-cut, and what a good cut actually looks like.
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Both of these bleed or sulk if you cut them at the wrong time, and the wrong time for both is spring. But their right windows are opposite ends of the year: acers in early winter, magnolias in midsummer. Here's why, and how light to go.
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Free-standing apple and pear trees are pruned in winter, while they're dormant. Trained forms get a summer trim as well. Here's the timing, why it matters, and how hard to cut a neglected old apple back.
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There are two camps. Apples and pears get pruned in winter. Plums, cherries and the rest of the stone fruit get pruned in summer, to dodge silver leaf disease. Get that one rule right and the rest follows.
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Ash dieback is going through southern England fast. What the disease is, what it looks like at each stage, why infected ash turns brittle and dangerous, and how we handle the removal.
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