Taranaki Regional Council media release
3 July 2009
For immediate release

Shear And Share Alike At Pruning Workshop

Sharp techniques for winter pruning will be shared at a free public workshop at Hollard Gardens, Kaponga, on 19 July.

Participants will learn why pruning’s much more than a cut-and-run exercise and how they can plan their garden surgery to achieve the results they want.

Techniques will be demonstrated on a range of shrubs and floral plants at Hollard Gardens, one of two heritage properties owned and managed by the Taranaki Regional Council on behalf of the people of the region.

The Council’s Regional Gardens Manager, Greg Rine, says one focus will be hydrangeas. “How you should prune these depends on whether you want excellent flowers and fewer of them, or for easier care, more flowers but less spectacular ones.”

Also on the agenda will be shrubs that benefit from winter attention, including crab apples, tree peonies and callistemons.

Mr Rine says the discussion will also include fruit trees, covering both regular pruning and the rejuvenation of neglected trees.

The two-hour workshop will begin at 2pm on Sunday, 19 July, at the events pavilion at Hollard Gardens, 1686 Upper Manaia Road, Kaponga. It is part of a series of free public events at Hollard Gardens and Tupare, the other Taranaki Regional Council heritage property.

For more information, see www.hollardgardens.info and www.tupare.info.

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