Hmm, my idea of a light tip prune didn’t include a chainsaw… I should have known better than to leave my husband unsupervised in the garden 🙂
Tropical colours in need of a light trim
The garden after the light prune...
Definition of Tip Pruning…
I’ve seen a rose specialist take to roses with a chainsaw… they always came back better than ever! It’s hard to kill things in the tropics, isn’t Helene?!
Yeah, Brett and I call that a ‘Poppy prune’ as his grandfather used to prune the roses to within an inch of their life.
Very glad he didn’t try this in a Canberra winter… It should be back to its bushy self in a month – just in time for lazing around the pool!
I can remember Dad’s idea of pruning being a tad dramatic as well 🙂
Hmmm … What do they say about marrying a man like your father? Dad once gave my then luxuriant honeysuckle a crewcut, and tried to tell me that it would only take a couple of months to grow back over the Canberra winter … hopefully your plants will fast forward …