With their fountain-like shape and exotic-looking flowers, fuchsia plants ... 10 and warmer You can prune fuchsias in early ...

Q. I have a hardy fuchsia that I have not pruned in recent years. Can you tell me how much of the plant should be cut back? What is the preferred time for pruning these plants?

You can also prune dead and damaged branches from Japanese maples, but don’t get snippy with cold tender plants such as salvias, Rose of Sharon or hardy fuchsia. Pruning always stimulates growth ...

We tinker, prune, clean and stack pots and improve soil ... larger containers at this time each year, but after a while plant and container can become impractically big and hard to manoeuvre.

It usually takes a full growing season for new plant roots to become well established ... If you have overgrown shrubs you need to prune, try to complete it before it gets hotter.