"Nick Maclaren" wrote in message
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In article ,
Ophelia wrote:

This can be worth doing when the plants are beyond any hope of
normal pruning! The reason for stressing that the plants are
fully deciduous is that many evergreen plants rely on their existing
leaves to fuel new shoots - ones like holly and yew will recover
from having all leaves removed, but will often be set back by a
year or so.

Right! I don't think I would have the courage to denude any plant. Btw
why
would you want to remove all the leaves?

Because you need to cut out all leaf-bearing branches!

Ahh. I thought you meant remove all the leaves! )


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