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Viburnum - advice needed
Hello, could someone help please? I'm trying to improve the
appearance of a neglected but hopefully healthy viburnum. I've done my best from the pics I've seen to identify it correctly as probably a bodnantense or, less likely I think, a grandiflorum. Around 6 weeks ago, at a height of possibly 10 feet or so, I started pruning off all the top growth and cut out some of the longer, older branches at ground level, removing probably about a third of the plant in one bash. It seems to have taken happily to this but most of the new growth is sprouting up again at the very top of the plant and this is exactly what I'm trying to avoid. Please forgive my ignorance on these matters, but I'm wondering if I can possibly set about the shrub again (now!) to remove even more of this newly growing top stuff, perhaps taking another foot or so of the old wood with it, with the objective of getting some new growth around the middle height of the plant. As things stand there is, as I say, a flourishing top and a fair bit of leafy growth near the base but a bald middle. At this stage I don't mind at all if whatever action is taken threatens the flowering possibility for the next year or two, all I'm trying to do is to give the plant, at this stage, a fuller leafy look. Any thoughts would be most appreciated. |
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