18/08/2025
Plants you need to prune this month, before the summer season comes to an end. Pruning is important as it will encourage more growth, maintain shape and remove any diseased or damaged parts.
1. Lavender
2. Climbing Hydrangea
3. Wisteria
4. Rambling Roses
The key with Lavender is to aim to keep the plant compact. Prune faded flower stalks and roughly an inch of leaf growth. You should not cut back into the woody part of the plant, unless you want to remove damaged stems. If you do cut back into any woody areas, this can affect how the plant regrows.
Climbing Hydrangea should be pruned after it has finished flowering, as this will ensure that the plant has enough time to develop flowering wood for the following year. Prune back any flowered shoots, and shorten any new growth that looks to be overly long.
After wisteria has flowered, cut back any whispy green shoots that are part of this year's growth to a few leaves. This will control the size of the plant, and encourage it to produce flower buds instead of foliage next year. Do not prune back too much because the plant will lose valuable foliage it needs to produce food and recover from flowering.
With Rambling Roses remove dead, damaged or twiggy growth on younger plants. When pruning older plants, thin and shorten excessive growth and prune out stems that have flowered if space is restricted. You should avoid pruning roses when it is due to rain, as fungal spores may splash onto the surface of fresh pruning cuts and infect them.
