I have a list of pruning as tall as my buddliea! I'm saving it until Christmas when I can do two birds with one pruning hook, and take the greenery chopped down to church, for decorating it. That way I don't have bags of rotting foliage in the garden until Feb!

I've got to prune my pyrocantha (after my next door neighbour butchered one side of it, without even asking, the bastard!) it's definately lopsided and is being held up with iron stakes at the moment.... don't want to cut it until the birds have had all the berries. He built a shed up against the fence and provided a perfect step into our garden from theirs - a boon to burglars. The pyrocantha was acting as razor wire over this roof... Then there is lopping 3ft off the pittisporum, which I was assured wouldn't grow past 5ft.. it's now 10 and growing. The aforementioned buddliea is 15ft and starting to overpower the whole garden, so that needs taking down to about 3ft, and then there is the trimming of the ivy and routing it round the places it's supposed to be, rather than the places it wants to be.

Then maybe the hollies will be found.... there were at least two surviving....

LTS