June marks the official beginning of British Summer Time and this gives you the perfect opportunity to head into the garden and get your pruning started.
Gardening expert Monty Don has revealed the exact time you should be pruning wisteria in June in order to maximise their growth and blooming flowers.
Read on below to find out more about how you should be pruning wisteria - alongside the three other plants you should care for next month in order to have them looking perfect. If you are worried about pruning then Monty recommended cutting too little rather than too much. This means that when the foliage has died on this plant, you should reduce it at least two to three inches on each side shoot.
The expert said: "This will give the new growth plenty of time to ripen before winter and thus bear maximum flowers next spring. Mature shrubs should be pruned hard, cutting back most of the flowering stems to a healthy new shoot and taking the oldest growth right back to the base so it is completely renewed every three or four years.If you have young shrubs then the weakest growth should be cut back with the remainder pruned just to its normal shape and size.
In order to do this, simply pull off the older flower heads and cut back to the first leaf to allow a new shoot to emerge.
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