Pruning for risk-takers

I gave the bay a flirty little prune in the end.

Short enough to show off her beautiful legs and give her a frilly skirt that raises the canopy just enough to let in light to the ground below.

Pruning is gardening for the adrenalin junkie. There's no going back.

You can spend years growing and just moments lopping off a significant part of that growth.


Plant something in the wrong place and you can move it. Pull something up, chances are, with a little love and luck, you can plant it again.

Trim the grass or a hedge and in less than a year your mistakes are hidden.

Lop off a branch and not only is that branch gone, others move, free from its weight. Do it right and you liberate the tree along with everything around it.