[Edsweb]

I have a very overgrown viburnum tinus and wish to prune quite heavily. Will pruning now cause any serious damage to the shrub?

[Janet Conroy]

Originally Posted by Edsweb

I have a very overgrown viburnum tinus and wish to prune quite heavily. Will pruning now cause any serious damage to the shrub?

I don't think evergreen viburnums should be pruned until late Spring. Having said that, I hacked back a lonicera today, so who am I to tell you what to do?

[Rusty_Hinge]

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I have a very overgrown viburnum tinus and wish to prune quite heavily.
Will pruning now cause any serious damage to the shrub?

No.

We had thickets of it in the garden when I was an anklebiter, and some
of it was razed to stumps, from which it regenerated vigorously.

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[Malcolm]

Edsweb wrote:
I have a very overgrown viburnum tinus and wish to prune quite heavily.
Will pruning now cause any serious damage to the shrub?




We cut one down to 6 inches a few months back and it is now shooting
from the stub

Malcolm