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Pruning season

Dear all,

Now for a very beginner's type problem:
There seem to be so many different opinions about when the best time to
prune things is. Now that the summer's heat has gone and the growing
season is back, I would like to change the question around and ask what
huge drawbacks there might be to pruning back hard now on leggy shrubs
like Nerium Oleander, Pittosporum Tobira, Tamarisk sp. and Lantana sp.
With so much contradictory info to choose from, I've always been much
too shy of cutting back and now they're all getting pretty ropey!
Also, does anyone have a successfully pruned Mirica sp.? - every time
I've pruned it, the cut area seems to go brown and die back!


Anthony
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