Pruning
We provide a detailed, formative pruning service for each of the needs of your individual fruiting or flowering plants and shrubs. Pruning plants accurately and at the correct time of year is of key importance and will ensure a significant improvement in their vigour, performance and overall health throughout their life cycle.
Do I need to prune my plants and shrubs each year?
There are many ornamental shrubs and trees that can be allowed to grow without regular pruning or shaping. Although, sometimes you may need to restrict the size, remove dead or diseased growth, increase vigour to improve the shape or just to keep the plant in a healthy state to produce flowers and fruits.
Certain shrubs that have been left unpruned will continue growing from where the growth ended the previous season, becoming leggy, bulky and top heavy, more suceptible to harbouring pests and disesases, flowering well above eye level and with poor growth around the base.
Trimming
Hedgerows can provide many benefits and uses within your garden. They can improve air quality, reduce tempretures in your garden by providing shade, screen unsightly views or reduce noise from a busy neighbouring building site or road, attract wildlife into the garden and provide corridors and habitiats for our flora and fauna.
During the design concept, hedgerows are often used to define a boundary line, wall or fence between adjoining properties and can also be used to divide up a large space, creating different areas within the garden.
They also provide an aesthetic value and can be visually pleasing to the eye. Hedgerows may be choosen for their unique foliage or scent, fruit or flower, texture, colour, size, shape or form.
Once a hedgerow has become established, having an annual maintenance program is essential in promoting strong, healthy growth and continued vigour, year on year. These programs include nutritional applications, weed control treaments and formative hedge pruning.
Why do I need to have my hedgerows trimmed back each year?
Hedge trimming is important for many reasons, it can help you shape the form and stimulate fruit and flower growth, get rid of diseased or dead branches as well as help prevent overgrowth, which can hinder the growth of your other plants.
Here are a few examples of the types of hedges and shrubs Urban Roots Horticulture can help you with:
- Cypress hedges, including Leyland Cypress and Lawson Cypress.
- Deciduous hedges, such as Beech, Hazel, Hornbeam, Forsythia.
- Evergreen hedges, including Common Laurel, Red robin, Box, Piracantha, Thuja, Holly, and Privet.
- Mixed hedgerows – mixtures of different species including Hawthorn, Blackthorn, Whitethorn, Field Maple, Spindle, Alder, Elder, Dogwood, Hazel and Guelder Rose.