{"id":4538,"date":"2021-01-16T18:38:56","date_gmt":"2021-01-16T17:38:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/grayshottgardeners.net\/?p=4538"},"modified":"2021-01-17T15:13:02","modified_gmt":"2021-01-17T14:13:02","slug":"david-hurrion-zooms-in-on-pruning-practices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/grayshottgardeners.net\/?p=4538","title":{"rendered":"David Hurrion Zooms in on Pruning Practices"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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David Hurrion pruning Garrya<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Our Zoom lecturer for January was David Hurrion, who came highly recommended after his interesting \u201cWorld Tour\u201d talk for Grayshott Gardeners in March 2020, our last lecture in the Village Hall. Conforming to Covid restrictions, he did not stray far from home this time, but offered a handy, practical and timely guide on the art of pruning to our Zoom audience of 80+ participants. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

As well as writing, lecturing, editing, designing and judging (RHS Shows), David is also an excellent teacher: he managed to pin down the practice of pruning to two rules of thumb: hard pruning at the end of the dormant season <\/em>for late spring and summer flowering plants, and summer pruning<\/em> (to remove spent flowers<\/em>) for everything else. Fortunately he did not leave it at that, there were plenty of examples, illustrated with photos, and a few exceptions to the rules too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

David went on to explain various techniques in order to achieve a specific purpose, whether to correct the shape of a plant, to encourage larger or more flowers or fruit, to extend a plant\u2019s life, or to control pests and diseases, and more. A diagram of the effect of different hormones (sap) rising in the plant\u2019s stem, and the result of clipping or lopping at different areas of the stem was especially illuminating, as was the difference between leaf and flower buds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To complete his pruning lecture, David demonstrated the different types of secateurs and loppers, not forgetting how to keep them clean, and he ended his talk with a bonus tip: he had it on good authority that we can expect very cold and frosty weather over the next 2 weeks. You have been warned!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Pruning a Wisteria in Summer<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

David has a website at www.davidhurrion.com as well as a YouTube channel with topical tips for 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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