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"Janice" writes:
| Last year I planted new shrubs: ribes sanguineum; wiegela florida; lonicera
| baggesen's gold; pyracantha; chaenomeles and viburnum tinus.
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| The shrubs are still quite small. Should I prune them now, or should I
| leave them for a year or two until they get a bit bigger?
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| If they're pruned now there won't be much left of them!

Prune them lightly if they are getting out of shape, to remove
weak wood or to make them bush out. Otherwise, don't bother.
I don't know Wiegela, but none of the others need regular pruning;
you CAN prune them quite hard, but you don't NEED to.


Regards,
Nick Maclaren.