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White Chrysanthemum choreography and dance: Jianan Qu The first Prize of the competition Best German Dance Solo of Euro-Scene Leipzig 2007

Little to do but plenty to think about

Make a start on pruning your roses but don’t get too hung up about the technicalities, it often doesn’t make too much difference to the number of flowers you get. I knew of one rose grower who pruned all of his roses with a hedge trimmer without any problems. With bush roses, reduce them down by about a third, just above an outward facing bud, cutting out any dead bits or crossing stems.

Whilst you’ve got your secateurs out, don’t be tempted to get too trigger happy. If you can’t remember what a plant is, it’s probably best not to cut it back as you might be cutting off this year’s flowers. We had a client who religiously trimmed her lilacs back every March and then wondered why they never flowered; she had cut the flower buds off without knowing it.

As a general rule if a shrub flowers before the end of June cut it back after it has flowered (such as forsythia, lilac, mahonia, viburnum bodnantense etc.) but if it flowers after the end of June cut it back in the autumn (such

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