With many years experience as a practising gardener, Paul brings a creative eye to the pruning of shrubs, climbers and small trees. Enhancing the shape of your plants for better visual impact within the garden. And improving their health with skilled pruning techniques.

Paul provides one-off, and regular seasonal visits to your garden here in Exeter (and the surrounding Devon area). To prune and shape your plants at the correct time of year. And to help keep your plants thriving; making this part of your annual garden maintenance routine.

Formative pruning

Pruning when the shrub or tree is young to encourage a strong leading stem or trunk with a healthy framework of branches. The training of new roses, climbers and wall shrubs all start with pruning to promote strong growth in the preferred direction along a wall or trellis.

Selective Pruning

The selecting of individual branches and stems to be pruned to create a balanced and open framework. This will not only help create a more pleasing shape to the shrub or tree, but also promote good health by allowing for improved air flow through the plant. In many cases pruning to promote healthy flowering and fruiting.

Regenerative Pruning

Sometimes when a shrub has become too overgrown for the space or congested the best course of action is more extreme pruning. Here the shrub is pruned hard back to allow for new and better managed growth. This type of more drastic pruning is not suitable for all shrubs.

Routine Pruning

The annual and regular pruning required to manage the growth of trees and shrubs. Removing dead, diseased and damaged stems. It is often a good idea to remove crossing and rubbing stems to maintain a healthy framework of branches. Topiary and evergreen shrubs that are clipped will need trimming to maintain the surface shape. And Paul is happy to set up regular visits at times of the year appropriate for the needs of your particular plants.