Photinia fraseri 'red robin'

[Gary Prentice]

"I don't know if Photinia can be cut back hard and will rejuvenate, like beech"

 

 

Does beech come back well?

 

In hedges, yes. Juvenile wood reshoots otherwise beech wouldn't be suitable as a hedging plant.

 

Did you think I meant trees?

[Tom D]

I see you're in the Borders Tom. that could suggest that your climates effected by the gulf stream and is better than ours. Or I might be talking a load of nonsense:biggrin:

 

 

 

Looking at ours again, all the twiggy leaf bearing extremities have died due to the hard pruning. The whole gardens mulched with rotted woodchip, so I'll assume is well fed and moisture retentive.

 

 

 

Probably worrying about this too much, but I'm fearful of pruning hard a killing the hedge off. Currently I'm not confident that it wouldn't.

 

 

We're on the east side so it gets cold here. The thing is if it's growing well now than it should grow well again. Just need to give it a full growing season to recover, if you prune in Autumn you'll get soft growth which is susceptible to frost.

[Gary Prentice]

We're on the east side so it gets cold here. The thing is if it's growing well now than it should grow well again. Just need to give it a full growing season to recover, if you prune in Autumn you'll get soft growth which is susceptible to frost.

 

Thank's Tom, I wondered if you were on the gulf stream side.

 

The clients going with the 'bosh it' option, so we'll do that in the next week or two and see what it does.

[Mick Dempsey]

Yep, "it's got two chances" as I often say (thereby absolving myself of any blame)