On 29/08/2014 16:20, Ophelia wrote:


"Spider" wrote in message
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On 28/08/2014 10:10, Ophelia wrote:


"JD" wrote in message
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Spider wrote in
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When you do start pruning, you first need to cut out the three 'Ds':
dead, dying and diseased growth. Then any crossing growth, that is,
any inward-growing branches which spoil the shape of the tree and also
increase the possibilty of fungal disease due to restricting air
movement. Also cut out any branch which rubs on another and may cause
wounding, which will subsequently let in disease.

The other useful thing you could do is drop heavy hints for a good
pruning guide for Christmas. I recommend the RHS Pruning & Training
guide by Christopher Brickell & David Joyce. It's a Dorling Kindersley
publication, ISBN 1-4053-0073-6.

Hope that helps a bit.

It helps massively. Thank you, Spider! Apologies for the delayed reply.
Your advice told be a lot that I hadn't managed to find elswhere.

Thank you again!

Spider should write a book! I would buy it



Bless you for saying that, Ophelia, but I don't think it would fly off
the shelves. Anyway, whichever gremlin is behind GB and stealing
URG's knowledge is already writing it :~(.

Oh I noticed that my book has been despatched but ...

Your estimated delivery date is:
Saturday, August 30, 2014 -
Thursday, September 11, 2014

Fingers crossed it comes faster than September

What is 'GB'? Are you saying someone is writing a book with knowledge
gained from the posters here??



Sorry .. GB is Garden Banter .. and I'm sure someone's making very good
use of Urglers' work. I meant to say 'probably' writing, but the
fingers couldn't find the keys ;~).

--
Spider.
On high ground in SE London
gardening on heavy clay